White Power (signed by Matt Koehl)
Dallas: Ragnarok Press, 1967. First Edition. The scarce first edition of George Lincoln Rockwell's book White Power, which had been printed but not yet published when Rockwell was assassinated by former American Nazi Party member John Patler in August 1967. Rockwell was scheduled to be in Dallas in September to autograph copies of the first edition, but instead, his successor Matt Koehl autographed an indeterminate number. According to William Schmaltz, one of two Rockwell biographers, 1000 copies of the first edition were published and sold for $10 to supporters.
Published six years after his first book, the autobiographical This Time the World, Rockwell hoped White Power would galvanize the white masses by chronicling the cultural degeneracy, the increasing militancy of the civil rights movement, and the disproportionate influence of Jewish power on American life. Rockwell coined the slogan ‘White Power’ in 1966 in response to Stokely Carmichael’s successful Black Power appeal, and he deployed it that summer when he and his followers led a few thousand protestors in Chicago to counter a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.-led campaign for equal housing. The slogan and Rockwell’s book also marked a tactical shift in attracting whites to National Socialism and in January 1967, the American Nazi Party became the National Socialist White People’s Party and the party newsletter, “The Rockwell Report,” became a tabloid newspaper titled “White Power.” A second edition was published in September, 1967, although confusingly, the 1972 and 1977 printings also state Second Edition. First editions were stated as such on both the dust jacket flap and the title page.
8vo. Paper over boards, 482 pp., illustrated throughout; dust jacket. SIGNED by Matt Koehl to the ffep. Copies that do appear on the market are nearly always from later editions/printings, and due to the cheap binding and production, condition is typically shabby. This copy, which has been stored away since 1967, is in fine, like new condition. Slightest rubbing to the dust jacket. Item #15002
Price: $1,500.00