Description
The first edition, first printing of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt, a report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Octavo, [viii], 275pp, [1]. Tan cloth, title stamped in red and black on spine, black topstain. The first printing, with “Published in 1963 by The Viking Press” on the copyright page. Faint soiling to cloth, a few thumbprints, internally clean. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $5.50 retail price on front flap, chipping at head of the spine, closed tear along back panel with archival tissue repair to verso, repairs along front hinge, a presentable example.
(Kehr & Langmaid, 5719)
Arendt’s report on the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, first published in The New Yorker in 1963, introduced the phrase “the banality of evil.”
