Gottfried Muller Ed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Hardcover without jacket. Some wear to tail end of spine, else very good condition: binding sound, text clean, light shelfwear. 48 pages, oversize book. Heavy item: priority or international shipping may be extra. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. In short score (the four parts on two staves). Previous owner's signature.

Softcover, 384 pages, in German; as new condition; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Folio (220 x 304 mm). 238, (2) pp. With one coloured plate and one full-page woodcut. Original beige leatherette with blue stamped cover-title and blue cloth spine. Includes publisher's advertisement, printed in blue, folded and loosely inserted. First German (and first non-Russian) edition, first issue, de-luxe edition ("Große Pracht-Ausgabe"): the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous antisemitic myth postulating an international Jewish conspiracy to gain control over the world. - The first (Russian) edition was published in 1903. The version that eventually spread worldwide appeared in 1905, in the second edition of a mystical, apocalyptic work by the religious writer Sergei Nilus (1862-1929). The present first non-Russian version was based on Nilus's second edition from 1911. It was published under the title "The Secrets of the Elders of Zion" by Ludwig Müller von Hausen, founder and chairman of the "Association against the Arrogance of Judaism", under the pseudonym Gottfried zur Beek. In his introduction, Müller, who maintained close contacts with right-wing extremist Russian emigrants in Berlin, embellished the legend that the Protocols had been written in 1897 at the Zionist Congress in Basel: allegedly, a "scout" for the Russian government bribed a Jewish envoy who was supposed to bring the Protocols to the supposed Jewish Masonic lodge "Zur aufgehenden Morgenröte" (Rising Dawn) in Frankfurt am Main, thus affording him an opportunity to copy them in one night - explaining their fragmentary character. This text was then said to have been sent to Nilus, who translated it into Russian in 1901 and supposedly transferred the sole rights to zur Beek. The text was exposed as fraudulent by the British newspaper The Times in 1921 and by the German newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in 1924. - A vertical crease to front cover; extremities faintly rubbed. Interior in excellent condition. - From a French private collection. - OCLC 251948543.…