Arthur Weidenfeld (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sage green covers have black ink title. Boards show some wear, smudges, edgewear. Corners are worn, with exposed board. See photos. Spine has black text, shelf number, and is darkened with crushed, frayed ends. See photos. Binding is strong. Pastedowns and feps have some remnants of library circulation materials at back. Ex-library book with expected markings, stamps at title page, text block edges. Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits light edgewear. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have library stamps to all edges.** PS2026.0819** 274 pages. 6 x 9 inches** Second printing. Publisher's sage green cloth with title and graphics in black. With illustrations and charts. Ex-college library, with ink stamps and circulation pocket remnants at back cover. Boards show handling and edge wear. Binding is sound and square. Interior is gently toned, unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy.** A study of one element of the Nazi war machine, written while the Second World War was still in progress. The authors relied on Nazi broadcasts, press, and other publications in their study, which focused not on the content of Nazi propaganda, but on the organization and dissemination of their message in Germany and beyond.** This academic study, first published in May 1943, found a readership beyond strictly academic circles, leading to a second printing in August 1944.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010551"**.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 241 pp., illustrations. In Swedish. light cover wear, spine cocked, light creasing along spine. Translated from the original English-language book "The Goebbels Experiment".

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. 1943 edition. No Jacket. Sticker on front cover. Fair condition. Moderate to heavy browning / foxing to covers & pages. No markings in text. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Friday.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Provenance: This book is from the estate of Michigan Senator Jack Faxon and comes with a letter of provenance and piece of Faxon re-election ephemera laid-in. Tan cloth cover has light wear to extremities and bumped corners with slight fading but clean and in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Front flap of dust jacket is dry mounted to the front paste down. Pages are very lightly toned but clean and in very good condition. .…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good, bound in full yellow cloth, with a Very Good dust jacket. Some minor chipping to edges of jacket. Previous owner inscription on half title page. Some toning. No markings to interior. 8vo, 7 1/2"h x 5 1/4"w. 260 printed pages, including Index and Appendix. An important early study of Nazi propaganda written at the height of the Second World War. This volume served as one of the earliest attempts to analyze the structure, methods, and psychological strategy behind Joseph Goebbels's Ministry of Propaganda. As such, it stands as a foundational text for historians of media, wartime communication, and totalitarian influence. This first edition is notably difficult to encounter in collectible condition, having been printed during wartime restrictions when paper quality and production runs were limited. The authorsboth journalists and analysts of German mass communicationhad unique access to broadcasts, speeches, and intercepted messaging, allowing them to document Goebbels's propaganda machinery in real time. Their work became a contemporary lens through which British and Allied readers could understand how information was being weaponized across Europe. For collectors of wartime history, early intelligence analysis, or the evolution of propaganda studies, this volume offers not only historical content but also significant bibliographic value as a first printing. An exceptional opportunity to add a piece of contemporaneous WWII scholarship to any serious collection.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Very good- condition (DJ). First Edition. 260 pages of text including an index. Original cloth binding is moderately tanned/sunned, with minor shelfwear. The original unclipped dustjacket is slightly darkened on the spine, with minor chipping mainly to the top edge, minor soiling mainly to the rear panel, a few small tears and small spots of soiling, and small spots of minor discoloration on the reverse from old tape repairs; protected in archival Mylar. Contains 14 illustrations including portraits and reproductions of propaganda illustrations. Some page edges with minor rippling. Previous owner's light pencil inscription on the half title page. Previous owner's illustrated bookplate on the inside front cover: F. Tennyson Jesse. Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Harwood (1888-1958) was an English journalist, author, criminologist and cartoonist. The text is clean and unmarked. The topics expressed on the dustjacket are: The inner workings of the Nazi propaganda organization; The network of Patry speakers; The German radio's war effort; The Nazi Press system; The German stage and screen in 1942; Propaganda for the Armed Forces; The men in control. This, the first UK edition, was published in 1942 while the first US edition was issued by Yale in 1943. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hard Cover First Edition, Book Production War Economy Standard, A comprehensive contemporary study from the British point of view of the Nazi propaganda apparatus at home and abroad, covering the Military, Press, Broadcasting, Cinema, Theatre, Literature, Fine Arts and Music. Photographic frontispiece of Goebbels with Hans Joachim Kriegler, Head of Broadcasting until 1939 + 6 other photographic plates, pp260. Condition Good, No DJ, front and back boards have age tanned edges, spine age tanned and spotted with bumped head and tail (the dark line on the head is a shadow from the fold in the cloth of the binding, not a gash or hole). Signed in pencil on inside front cover. Page block clean and firm with no tanning on page margins, edges are relatively free of age tanning, bottom edge has what looks to be black crayon marks (see images). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [A Contemporary Analysis of the Effects of Nazi Propaganda] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with minor loss. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Markings on front end page, else unmarked. xi, 274 p., 24 cm. Includes related ephemera. A narrative of Hitler's minister of propaganda and analysis of the effects on the German people and reactions abroad. Sington and Weidenfeld "relied largely upon broadcasts by the German radio during the war, upon the German press from 1933 to 1942, and on German publications of many kinds which have reached England up to June, 1942." Includes a contemporary (reprint) of the New York Times' book review from June 27, 1943. "Goebbels's strength was merely our own weakness. He performed the rope trick because we had closed our eyes. Once we have opened them, even the most competent inventory of the the poor devil's charms will look pathetic." Contents: The National Socialist Party, 1918-1932 --The party propaganda department --The party press --The propaganda ministry --The reich chamber of culture --The controlled press --Broadcasting the third reich --Propaganda and the armed forces --The cinema in the third reich --The controlled theatre --Literature and propaganda --The fine arts as propaganda --Music as propaganda.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 260 pages. Index. List of main sources. Black and white photographic plates. Organizational chart of the German Broadcasting Company (RRG) in 1942 and its links to the Ministry of Propaganda. Organizational chart of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in 1942. "The first complete account of the gigantic propaganda organization of the Third Reich. Reveals and describes: The inner workings of the Nazi propaganda organization; The network of Party speakers; The German radio's war effort; The Nazi press system; The German stage and screen in 1942; Propaganda for the armed forces; The men in control. Access to unique German documentary material and an intimate knowledge of German wartime broadcasting and of the Nazi press have enabled the authors to paint a full-length picture of Hitler's political warfare machine." - dust jacket. Printed to wartime standard, apparently without a front free endpaper. Unmarked with average wear and soiling to publisher's canary yellow cloth. Average wear and half-inch of loss to decorated orange dust jacket at top of spine. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy of this vital and incisive wartime study. KEHR & LANGMAID 2950.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Goebbels, Propaganda, Third Reich, Nazi Party, Germany, World War 1939-1945, German Broadcasting Company, RRG, Ministry of Propaganda, Ministry of Propaganda and Enlightenment, radio, Theatre, News Media, Wartime Propaganda.…