Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State.

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 228

(ZIONISM).

Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State.

<<FIRST AMERICAN 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. pp. xxii, 102. Dampstained in places, previous owners’ stamps in many places (Abraham Shnitka of Calgary). Original gilt titled limp boards, gutter split, light wear. Tall 8vo.

New York: The Maccabaean Publishing Co. 1904

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

<<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.