Author: HITLER, ADOLF; [MUSSEY, BARROWS (TRANSLATOR)]; LORE, LUDWIG (PREFACE)
Title: Mein Kampf - the First Complete and Unexpurgated Edition Published in the English Language - Unauthorized: This Edition Pays No Royalties to Adolf Hitler
Description: New York City: Stackpole Sons Publishers, 1939. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "For thirteen years Adolf Hitler has prevented publication of an uncensored, unabridged edition of Mein Kampf outside Germany, in English. With the appearance of this volume, Hitler's censorship ends, and the work which Dorothy Thompson calls 'Hitler's blueprint of world conquest' is at last available to readers everywhere." - dust jacket. "The Stackpole edition was translated and printed between December 1938 and February 1939. Houghton Mifflin, which believed Stackpole to be violating its copyright, sought and obtained an injunction against Stackpole on 9 June 1939. By that time, only 12,000 copies of the Stackpole edition had been sold. It remains a rare and valuable artifact." - Wikipedia. For a thorough description and analysis of the intriguing and complicated legal fight between Houghton Mifflin and Stackpole, and the differences between their versions of this title see Hitler's Mein Kampf in Britain & America - A Publishing History 1930-39 by James and Patience Barnes. 669 pages. Clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear to original black cloth lettered in silver. Includes new replica dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality vintage copy.; 8vo. Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Conspiracy Politics