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LENI RIEFENSTAHL
Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf -- Beauty in the Olympic Games. Berlin: Deutschen Verlag, 1937. Quarto (310 x 235mm). 273 black and white photographs. Original cloth, spine and front cover blocked in gilt, original pictorial dust-jacket (fore-edge and endpapers with very light scattered spotting, the glassine with a few small chips).
FIRST EDITION, the dust-jacket preserved in early glassine. A very good copy of Riefenstahl's monument to the 1936 Olympics. 'THESE ARE SUCH EXQUISITE, SUCH TRANSCENDENTALLY BEAUTIFUL IMAGES OF ATHLETES, THAT ONE ALMOST FORGETS THEIR CONTEXT' (101 Books, pp.96-7). The Photobook, p.151 ('A LAVISH PHOTOBOOK').
Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf -- Beauty in the Olympic Games. Berlin: Deutschen Verlag, 1937. Quarto (310 x 235mm). 273 black and white photographs. Original cloth, spine and front cover blocked in gilt, original pictorial dust-jacket (fore-edge and endpapers with very light scattered spotting, the glassine with a few small chips).
FIRST EDITION, the dust-jacket preserved in early glassine. A very good copy of Riefenstahl's monument to the 1936 Olympics. 'THESE ARE SUCH EXQUISITE, SUCH TRANSCENDENTALLY BEAUTIFUL IMAGES OF ATHLETES, THAT ONE ALMOST FORGETS THEIR CONTEXT' (101 Books, pp.96-7). The Photobook, p.151 ('A LAVISH PHOTOBOOK').
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