Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State.

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

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Lot 235

(ZIONISM).

Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State.

FIRST AMERICAN ENGLISH EDITION. Preface and notes by Jacob de Haas. With celebrated photographic portrait of Herzl leaning over the balcony-rail of the Hotel Les Trois Rois, Basel. Half-title signed by the early American Zionist leader, Joseph H. Berkowitz. Endpapers tipped with portrait of Herzl, map of Israel and related newspaper cuttings. pp. xxii, 102. Trace stained in places. Original printed wrappers, light wear. Tall 8vo

New York: The Maccabaean Publishing Co. 1904

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,250

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF “DER JUDENSTAAT.” Within this slim tract Theodor Herzl founded political Zionism - an epochal call for the establishment of a Jewish State as a National Home for the Jewish People. “That (such a) State was created in Palestine within fifty years of (Herzl’s) death was due to the vision and the practical methods expressed in (this) manifesto.” Carter & Muir, Printing and the Mind of Man (1983) no. 381.