[Rarebooks] FS: DIE OLYMPISCHEN SPIELE 1936 with Signed Photographs of Jesse Owens

[Charles Agvent]

 From our upcoming annual Summer Miscellany Catalogue due to be posted on our 
home page within a month.  It will contain a variety of fine and unusual itesm, 
such as this:

(OWENS,  Jesse).  DIE  OLYMPISCHEN  SPIELE  1936.  IN  BERLIN  UND
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN.  BAND  II.  SIGNED  5 Times  by  Jesse  Owens.
Hamburg:  Cigaretten-Bilderdienst [1936]. First Edition. The second of
two   volumes:  the  first  concentrated   on  the  Winter  Games   at
Garmisch-Partenkirchen  and  this, the second volume,  celebrated  the
summer  games in Berlin. Illustrated with approximately 200  tipped-in
photographs  of various sizes, the largest being the first: a close-up
of  Hitler and his henchman saluting in the stadium. There are  also 5
photographs  of Jesse Owens, one of America's greatest athletes  whose
four  Gold  Medals  in these 1936 Berlin Olympics angered  host  Adolf
Hitler.  What raises this copy above the ordinary is that each of  the
5  photographs  is INSCRIBED and SIGNED in February 1977 by  the  star
athlete.  The  stadium in Berlin where the 1936 Olympics was held  was
most  recently the site of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Championship  match
between  France and Italy. A very special item! Dampstaining to  lower
portion  of rear cover with slight effect on some pages, mostly at the
lower rear corner. Still Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.  $2000.00

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