686. (ADOLF HITLER) Book: Das Christus-Erlebnis: Im Dramatisch-Musikalischen Von Richard Wagner, Parsifal (The Christ-Experience In the dramatic music of Richard Wagner), publishing house of the Christian partnership, with a number of musical scores in the text, 73pp, original red cloth, lettered in gilt, Adolf Hitler's copy inscribed to him by the author: "Dem groben Wagner-Fruend, Herrn, Reichskanzler, Adolf Hitler, Gewidmet!, z. Zt. Der Beyreuther-Festspiele 1933" ("Dedicated to the huge Wagner-friend, Mr. Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler! At the Beyreuth Festival, 1933"). Hitler had only recently taken power and was in attendance at the annual Wagner festival that summer, where since 1876 Wagnerian operas had been performed at Wagner's own specially designed "Festspielhaus". Both Hitler's love of Wagner and the perversion of Wagner's music by the Nazis are well documented. Historically significant and rare.           $1,500 - 2,000