Sachs HansABAA
Witches' Sabbath an unexpurgated autobiography
196414728New York: Stein and Day 1964. Hardcover. 315p. very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and lightly-worn dj. Young 3396. Sachs was a flagrant homosexual Jew who converted to Catholicism but had to leave seminary due to an affair with a young man. During the 1920s he was involved with Cocteau Genet LeDuc et al. During the War he took money to help Jews escape Germany. Captured imprisoned and forced on a death-march he fell by the wayside and was shot in the neck and left to die. On passing a herd of sheep he was reported to have sighed and stated "Ah the Jews." Originally published in French as "Le Sabbat Stein and Day hardcover books
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB · États-Unis15,00 $US≈ 12,69 €
