Berlin Olympics 1936 (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Guidebook produced for journalists detailing accommodation, tickets, telegram facilities etc. 8vo. 75pp. Text in English. With fold-out map of the stadium. Original card covers, a little browned but very good condition and scarce.

8vo. Oblong album, leather over cream paper boards, string-tied, silver title and Olympic design to front, twine stitching to perimeter. Contains 56 black and white photographs measuring 310 x 240 mm, mounted with clear photo corners, each leaf separated with webbed tissue guard. Two additional photographs loosely placed within. Some loss to leather spine, verso only, otherwise in very good condition, a pleasing album with crisp images. These images, captured first-hand by a participating athlete in the Olympic Games, are centred on the Berlin Olympic Stadium, where the athletic and track events took place, revealing the photographer's sport. We also find images of runners on a practice course, a high jumper, an equestrian event, spectators, security officials, and guards, some of the latter sporting binoculars for surveillance, others armed with long rifles. Olympic monuments include the Marathon Gate pillars from which was hung the iconic five ring symbol, the enormous receptacle for the Olympic Flame, and one of the sculptures of athletes which today are the subject of discord by some. City streets are saturated with political propaganda flags, whilst symbolic Olympic flags make but a mere discreet dispersing appearance among them. Two views show an airship blimp with the Germany's new national symbol hovering overhead, while a few inner city views show athletes running with the torch ceremoniously for the civilians. Elements of domination, superiority and mastery are captured two-fold in this unusual album of images, first and foremost in the display of a grand competition event of athletic champions from around the world, and secondly, in the less than subtle propaganda that would inevitably pierce the otherwise peaceful images of global collaboration and common ground. Rare to find an album by a professional athlete yet an amateur photographer of these historic Olympic Games.…

Official photographic guide to the Olympic Village for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. 1st edition. Landscape format. 27 plates, photographic and illustrations. Internally very good, clean and bright. In the original grey cloth with gilt decorative titles to upper. Covers lightly spotted else very good. Signed to the front free end paper by the entire British Olympic Football team for 1936 including standby players, 23 names plus head coach William Voisey. The team included Arsenal's Bernard Joy, the last amateur to play for England. Great Britain lost 5-4 to Poland in the quarter-finals. …

Souvenir German-language booklet for the boxing tournament at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. This was one of a series of 26 booklets covering all the sports involved in the Games. Paperback. 15 x 11cm. 32pp. Very good condition.