Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944

Brown cloth-boards, gilt to the spine, plain endpapers, frontispiece and xxxvi + 746 pp of text and index.

A note on the text by Hugh Trevor-Roper, who also contributed the introductory essay, confirms that the English version is a translation of the full Martin Bormann transcripts - "400 pages of German and 722 pp of English" - rather than of the shorter French version by Genoud or of the Picker German version, "which is arranged not chronologically but according to subject-matter".

Trevor-Roper's introduction on the mind of Adolf Hitler runs to 28 pp. It includes the passage " . . . when asked not what he did but how he did it, or rather how he was able to do it, historians evade the question, sliding away behind implausible answers."

CONDITION. The fact that the few first edition copies of this book on the market share badly damaged covers and binding may indicate that there were some production shortcomings. Our copy also had these faults, but has now been recased in matching faux buckram, with the original spine cover laid down and new plain endpapers added. Beyond repair, however, is a brown water-stain at the head of the book-block. This is very noticeable on the face of the first half-dozen leaves, including the frontispiece and title-page (see image), and it continues much less noticeably for the next dozen leaves. Otherwise the contents are complete, unmarked and undiscoloured.

The repair has made this a collectable copy of what is today a rare book.