Hitler, Adolf. My Battle (Mein Kampf). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933 [1937]. Second American Edition. 297pp. 

A very scarce second American edition of My Battle (Mein Kampf) by Adolf Hitler, in the publisher's exceptionally scarce and controversial dustjacket, on which Dorothy Thompson pens her nearly glowing recommendation of the book and its author. Includes frontispiece portrait. The modified second edition dustjacket elicited a diplomatic protest from the German government. The first run was already controversial. It was 7,603 copies, priced at $3.00. It met with moderate commercial success but elicited condemnation from Jewish American groups across the United States. By 1937, Houghton Mifflin decided to risk a second edition, with a retail price of $2.50 [as here] and the updated dustjacket containing a provocative quote by columnist Dorothy Thompson on the back panel and illustrated with the colors of the Weimar Republic. The dust jacket resulted in a diplomatic protest from the German government, demanding that it be replaced with an approved design from the German publisher Eher Verlag, but Houghton Mifflin refused.

Dustjacket, the only means by which the rare second edition can be located, is chipped with some light losses, retaining the identifying "$2.50" on flap. Binding and hinges are sound. Light soiling to cloth. 1938 discrete pen inscription on ffep. Textually crisp and clean. 

The only other example of this edition with dustjacket on the market at $1,500.00.