Copy of Mein Kampf signed by Hitler sells for $65,000

An autographed two-volume set of Adolf Hitler's Nazi treatise Mein Kampf has sold at auction in Los Angeles for $64,850 (£38,700).

The books date from 1925 and 1926 and were purchased by an anonymous US buyer, auctioneer Nate Sanders said.

Hitler inscribed the cloth-bound volumes, one a first edition and the other a second, to Josef Bauer, an early Nazi party member and SS officer.

The Nazi leader offered Bauer his best wishes in the Christmas season.

The online bidding started at $20,000 and concluded on Thursday night Feb 27,2014. The books received 11 bids.

Written by Hitler while he was jailed for his role in a 1923 failed putsch attempt, Mein Kampf (My Struggle) rails against Judaism and communism.

The two volumes were published in 1925 and 1926, before Hitler became chancellor of Germany.