laqueur walter foreword (7 risultati)

hardcover, Condizione: Very Good, Edition Q, Inc., Chic., c.1994, 8vo., cloth, 254pp., NF/NF $.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. 8vo., 450 pp. Illustrated. Second print. Hoover Institution Publication 204. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Advance proof of this rare material. Purple matte wraps, cover titles, moderate shelf wear. Pages near fine; editor apparently numbered forward w/Roman numerals in margin. Bind fine. Foreword by Walter Laqueur. Wilhelm Wulff (1892-1979) was a German-Austrian astrologer and writer. This advance issue is apparently somewhat different than the final published volume w/twelve additional pages. 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 punishment should my calculations prove inaccurate." Wulff relates how he informed Himmler and other high-ranking Nazis about their horoscopes and, more importantly, Adolph Hitler's. 179 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Fleming, Ian (Jacket Illustration) (illustratore). First Edition. 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 punishment should my calculations prove inaccurate." Wulff relates how he informed Himmler and other high-ranking Nazis about their horoscopes and, more importantly, Adolph Hitler's. First published in 1968 in Germany. Contents include: "Foreword by Walter Laqeuer; Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book; I Become an Astrologer; Herbert Volck: The Embittered Veteran; Captain Lohmann: Rearmament by Stealth; In the Hands of the Gestapo; Felix Kersten; Find Mussolin!; My First Meeting with Walter Schellenberg; Lunch with Heinrich Himmler; Counterespionage Headquarters, Berlin; Himmler and July 20, 1944; Count Bernadotte's Mission; Himmler at the End of His Tether; The End Approaches; and, Henirch Himmler's Final Orders." Printed in Great Britain by Redwood Press Limited, Trowbridge, Wiltshire. 192 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Book.