Berlin Olympics (6 results)

Official daily program for August 5, 1936, Summer Olympic Games, Berlin. Wrappers. Fair-good condition, wrappers succumbed to age and separated. Results of some races were filled in by an American visitor to the Games, including Jesse Owen's win in the semifinal heat of the 200 meter dash. Another African-American, Matthew Robinson, won the other heat and eventually finished second to Owens. Owens had already won the 100 meter and the long jump and his victories are listed among the winners in the rear of the program. Another African-American teammate, Frederick Pollard, Jr., also qualified in the semifinal of an event he eventually won, the 110 meter hurdles. To see these finishes, laden with political meaning, recorded on the day is outstanding.

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.

Publishers Cloth. Book measures 7 1/2 x 5 inches. Collation, 316pp, occasional illustration. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with dark blue lettering and olympic logo. Rebacked, using most of the original spine, some staining, minor wear. Binding slightly grubby, but in good firm condition. Internally, pages have the occasional minor stain, dog-eared on some edges. Generally the handbook has been used, but is in good condition, in a good solid binding. Size: 8vo.

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.