Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
HERZL, THEODOR. Der Judenstaat. Versuch einer modernen Lösung der Judenfrage. 86 pages. 8vo, modern 1/2 cloth, original front wrapper (soiled, trimmed, and mounted) bound in; 2 stamps imperfectly washed out of title, scattered minor marginal soiling or spotting. Leipzig & Vienna: M. Breitenstein, 1896

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first edition. "Herzl's book . . . crystallized the idea of a national home for the Jews . . . By his work he transformed the Jewish People from a passive community into a positive political force"--Printing and the Mind of Man 381. with: Proceedings of the Zionist Congress held at Basle, Switzerland, August 29, 30 and 31, 1897. 60 pages. Small 8vo, original wrappers, missing small portions from top and bottom of backstrip, 2 short clean tears in rear cover; contents clean. New York: Philip Cowen, 1897. scarce american edition of the complete proceedings in English of the First Zionist Congress, reprinted from the Jewish Chronicle of London.