2 Hannah Arendt first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) to Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Hannah Arendt title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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The Origins of Totalitarianism — 1951 · Harcourt, Brace and CompanyCloth; copyright page dated 1951 with no later-printing or revised-edition statement; first-state dust jacket priced. The text was published in Britain under the variant title 'The Burden of Our Time.'. US Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York), 1951, is the first appearance under the title 'The Origins of Totalitarianism.' The British Secker & Warburg edition, also 1951, carries the variant title 'The Burden of Our Time'; exact month-level precedence between the two 1951 issues is debated, so collectors treat them as a title variant rather than asserting one over the other. Later revised and enlarged editions…. Multiple revised and enlarged editions exist (notably 1958 and 1966/1968); the 1951 first lacks any revision or added-section statement.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil — 1963 · The Viking PressPublisher's tan cloth stamped in red and black; copyright page with 1963 first-printing indicia and no later-printing statement; first-state dust jacket priced. The work was first serialized in The New Yorker. US Viking Press (New York), 1963, true first; the UK Faber & Faber edition also appeared in 1963. The 1964 revised and enlarged edition, which adds the author's Postscript, is 'first thus.'. The widely reprinted text is the 1964 revised edition with the added Postscript; the 1963 first lacks that Postscript.

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