What is the value of mein kampf by reynal and Hitchcock 1939 complete and unbridged?

Answer 1

It has no real value other than to someone who wants to compare it to other translations. The Reynal Hitchock translation is very poorly made. It is now known that the list of "experts" listed in the front of the book did not actually do the translating. Some of them had nothing to do with the book and some translation was done by assistants not listed. So this edition is not valuable at all.

The only Mein Kampf editions that have real collector value are the original German printed editions, especially the earlier editions. The very first editions are the most valuable. The Stackpole edition has some value, usually around $120 a copy because it was only published for a short time, not because it is good because it is not a good translation. The Ford translation is the new standard and the best edition published. It is actually worth more than most of the older translations by Reynal Hitchock or Manheim because the older translations are so hard to read or have errors.

If you have a Reynall Hitchcock edition, you can always sell it on an auction site and see where it goes.

There is a book which documents the different editions of Mein Kampf. It does not give values but does explain which editions are very valuable and which are not.