Description
Adolf Hitler Cigarette Card Photo Book with Rare Original Dust Jacket.
Very popular in the 1930’s and 40’s were these collectors’ cigarette card/photo books, you would have initially bought the blank album and then with every purchase of a packet of cigarettes you collected your next card or photograph until eventually you had the whole set.
This book, titled ‘Adolf Hitler’ was dedicated to Germany’s Führer and was very popular at the time, it follows Hitler’s early years in power, and has lots of quite amazing photographs, many of Hitler actually smiling, some very rare images indeed.
It was published in 1936 and has an introduction by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, dated 15th September 1935 and includes a facimile of his signature, followed on the next page with a Forward by Propaganda minister Dr. Josepf Goebbegls.
Orange covers with titles in gilt to front board, white spine with, again, titles in gilt, the book has 135 pages and all photographs are present, over 200 of them.
The standout feature of this copy is that it is complete with it’s incredibly rare pictorial dustjacket. Front cover of the dustjacket features Hitler in uniform along with two SS guards and ‘Adolf Hitler’ standard, also a large facimile of Hitler’s signature to the lower right corner.
Condition:
Well read but all there, good tight binding, pages with a yellow tint throughout, no rips, no tears, no inscriptions and no pen or pencil marks, very clean tight copy with fabulous photographs.
The super rare dustjacket has nicks and tears mainly along outer edges but otherwise it is quite spectacular and the artwork is amazing..
Dimensions:
31cm x 24cm
Weight:
1.375kg
All weights and measurements are approximate.
