Description

Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1922. 230 by 165 mm (9 by 6.5 inches). Three volume set. Half leather marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine; [12], 648, [2]; [10], 620, [2]; [10], 662, [2]. True first edition limited to 150 copies. Vol. I noted as copy 89. Vol. II noted as copy 115. Edition limitation left blank in Vol. III. Upper edge gilt. Each volume contains a different tipped-in portrait of Herzl following the title page. In German. Very good. Leather rubbed and corners bumped. Vol. II & III with very light marginal water stains.

The scarce limited edition and true first edition of the diaries by Theodor Herzl (1860–1904). Herzl was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, political activist, and writer who is best known as the father of political Zionism. In his diaries, Herzl describes in detail how he formed the World Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish migration to Palestine. Of especial interest is Vol. I, in which Herzl details the writing and publication of his famous manifesto The Jewish State, which is Printing and the Mind of Man 381 and item twenty-one of this catalogue.

Provenance

Collection of Felix Guggenheim.

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