Adolf Hilter - Mein Kampf 1st English Edition 1939 - 2 days only!!!!

ADOLF HITLERS BOOK.... MEIN KAMPF, ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1ST EDITION 1939 COMPLETE TWO VOLUMES IN ONE! 1. A RETROSPECT 2. THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT UNABRIDGED AND FULLY ANNOTATED!!!

THIS BOOK WAS TRANSLATED BY JAMES MURPHY WHO WAS EMPLOYED BY THE GERMAN GOVERMENT TO TRANSLATE MEIN KAMPF (MY STRUGGLE) WORD FOR WORD INTO ENGLISH! UNTIL 1939 THE ONLY VERSION AVAILABLE TO THE ENGLISH READER WAS THE DUGDALE TRANSLATION OF 1933! WITH LARGE PORTIONS OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT MISSING IT DID NOT PROVIDE THE PUBLIC WITH AN INSIGHT INTO HITLERS MIND AND THE NEW ORDER! THE MURPHY TRANSLATION IS REGARDED AS THE ONLY TRUE "WORD FOR WORD" COPY OF THIS BOOK AVAILABLE! THE BOOK WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN MARCH 1939 PRINTED IN SMALL NUMBERS TO TEST THE PUBLIC REACTION AND SALES POTENTIAL! ..... IT SOLD LIKE "HOTCAKES" WITH A SECOND RUN IN APRIL IT SOLD OVER 50,000 COPIES IN THREE WEEKS!!! GOING THROUGH MANY EDITIONS UNTIL 1942 WHEN WITH SOME IRONY THE PREMISES OF THE PUBLISHER HURST & BLACKETT WERE BOMBED DURING THE LONDON BLITZ OF THAT YEAR WITH THE BOOK PRINTING PLATES DESTROYED! THE COPY OFFERED IN THIS SALE IS ONE OF THOSE FIRST COPIES OF MARCH 1939.

OVERALL THEN A VERY NICE EXAMPLE OF A VERY COLLECTABLE 1ST ENGLISH EDITION PUBLISHED BY HURST & BLACKETT OF

LONDON ENGLAND  1939!... WILL MAKE A FINE ADDITION TO YOUR LIBRARY!!

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