First edition. 8vo., red cloth, lettered in white. München, Zentralverlag der N.S.D.A.P, 1934.
A presentation copy, inscribed on a slip of paper pasted on the left margin to the front free endpaper, typed 'S.Exz. Ritter v. Epp in dankbahrer Verehrung', signed in ink underneath by Goebbels, below the signature a pencil annotation beginning eingel. 25.6.34, followed by three illegible words, and a signature, also indecipherable.
An edited version of Goebbels' diaries covering the period just before Hitler and the Nazis came to power.
Bookplate of Ritter von Epp pasted, on the top half only, to the front pastedown. Franz Ritter von Epp was a much decorated veteran of the first world war, who served as a member of the Reichstag for the Nazi party from 1928-45, and was Reichsstatthalter for Bavaria. He produced from secret army funds support for the Nazi newspaper the 'Völkischer Beobachter'. Tipped in a flyer folded once, for Moeller van den Bruck's book 'Das Dritte Reich'.
The white lettering almost entirely rubbed away on the spine, with a few gaps on the lettering on the front cover.
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