HERZL, THEODOR. DER JUDENSTAAT. Versuch einer Modernen Losung der Judenfrage. 8vo, rebound in orange morocco, gilt-lettered on spine.

Leipzig and Vienna: M. Breitenstein's Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1896 FIRST EDITION. "The real impetus to regain their country (for the Jews) and to reconstitute their State did not come until the mid-nineteenth century... It was Herzl's book which really crystallized the idea of a national home for the Jews... By his work he transformed the Jewish people from a passive community into a positive political force." --Printing and the Mind of Man 381.