Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State.

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

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Lot 217

(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. Gutter split. Original gilt titled limp boards, covers detached, spine worn. Tall 8vo.

New York: The Maccabaean Publishing Co. 1904

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

<<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.