Zodiac and Swastika: How Astrology Guided Hitler's Germany by Wilhelm Wulff, Astrologer to Hitler's Court

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 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.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Fleming, Ian (Jacket Illustration). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Book.