[OLYMPICS]. HOFFMANN, Heinrich, photog, and Lüdwig HAYMANN, author. Die Olympischen Spiele 1936.
Sale 1136 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
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Mar 27, 2023
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Lot Description
[OLYMPICS]. HOFFMANN, Heinrich, photog, and Lüdwig HAYMANN, author. Die Olympischen Spiele 1936.
[OLYMPICS] -- [EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. HOFFMANN, Heinrich, photographer, and Lüdwig HAYMANN, author. Die Olympischen Spiele 1936. Diessen am Ammersee: Raumbild-Verlag Otto Schönstein, 1936.
Volume I. 4to. 100 numbered stereoscopic photographic prints and viewer. (Minor toning to text pages, light paint loss to stereoviewer.) Original illustrated buckram with thick beveled boards (slight losses to ink in spine lettering).
FIRST EDITION photographic history of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with stereoscopic photographs by Heinrich Hoffman, the photographic reporter for the Reich, and text by ex-heavyweight boxing champion Lüdwig Haymann. Each photograph 5 x 2 1/4 in. Images #1-22 mounted to black cardstock interspersed with the text. Images #23-100 unmounted and loose in three pockets in inner rear cover. Unmounted images include work title, image title, and publication information printed to the versos. Although the half-title notes that this is "Volume I" [Band I], no evidence of later volumes could be ascertained.
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