Zodiac and Swastika: How Astrology Guided Hitler's German by Wulff, Wilhelm - 1973

A serious history of the life of an astologer during the troubled and hysterical period of Nazi domination in Germany.
Wulffs astrological predictions were relied on by Himmler especially after the plot to assassinate Hitler didn't succeed.
The author's descriptions of conversations with Himmler show a vacillating and weak-minded person and brings the SS leader's confused self-deluding personality vividly to life.

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Orange cloth, lettered in gold foil. 192 pp. Slight binding lean, text block edges a bit tanned by age. Former owners' book plate mounted inside front cover. Pictorial dust jacket shows surface rubbing, with crease along a portion of top rear edge, now in mylar. Stated 1st American ed..

11 St. John's Hill, London : Arthur Barker, Limited , 1973. First English printing. Stated first published in Great Britain by Arthur Bakers Limited. Red cloth boards, bright gilt spine titles, moderate shelf, adhesive residue. Pages very good; some intelligent lightly pencilled neat underscore throughout majority. Several stamps at front, back endpapers, copyright page for "Coburg Public Library"; card pocket inside back cover. Dust wrapper, moderate shelf wear, spine rub; unclipped 2.50 net, protected in new clear sleeve. Pictorial wrapper design by Ian Fleming features front panel in black w/bold titles, red swastika at center of finely detailed zodiac. Back panel and spine in yellow w/red titles. Rare solid first and only printing in very good wrapper. Foreword by Walter Laqueur. Wilhelm Wulff (1892-1979) was a German-Austrian astrologer and writer. He was astrologer to Heinrich Himmler's court. Wulff wrote this book to dispel allegations he was a Nazi supporter… Read More

11 St. John's Hill, London : Arthur Barker, Limited , 1973. First English printing. Stated first published in Great Britain by Arthur Bakers Limited. Red cloth boards, bright gilt spine titles, fine. Pages fine; no writing. Dust wrapper, moderate edge wear, rub; clipped, protected in new clear sleeve. Pictorial wrapper design by Ian Fleming features front panel in black w/bold titles, red swastika at center of finely detailed zodiac. Back panel and spine in yellow w/red titles. Rare near fine first and only printing in very good wrapper. Foreword by Walter Laqueur. Wilhelm Wulff (1892-1979) was a German-Austrian astrologer and writer. He was astrologer to Heinrich Himmler's court. Wulff wrote this book to dispel allegations he was a Nazi supporter working to further it's cause. He was freed from a concentration camp to become Himmler's personal astrologer and, in the author's words "I was anything but a free man... I worked under the constant threat of severe… Read More