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The Naked Olympics
by Tony Perrottet
What was it like to attend the ancient Olympic Games?With the summer Olympics' return to Athens, Tony Perrottet delves into the ancient world and lets the Greek Games begin again. The acclaimed author of Pagan Holiday brings attitude, erudition, and humor to the fascinating story of the original Olympic festival, tracking the event day by day to re-create the experience in all its compelling spectacle.Using firsthand reports and little-known sources--including an actual Handbook for a Sports Coach used...
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Olympics Books & Ephemera
Great Olympic Champions
by DEVANEY, John
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Pictorial boards as issued. Fine, without dustwrapper.
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NZ$42.86
Art & Physique: series 8, Olympic issue/luxury issue
by Hood, Ralph, editor, Quaintance, Robert Mizer, John R. Campbell, Lloyd Steel, Fred Sparnell, et al
Metairie: Marcus Sen Pub, 1959. Magazine. 32p., including covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrated with b&w artworks and photos in physique and Olympic Games styles, comic strip by Campbell, "Marcus Sen: in the days of Rome" very good digest sized magazine in stapled pictorial white wraps. Article on the forthcoming 1960 Olympics. Mizer as AMG and Quaintance offers photos for a change.
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NZ$77.16
The Marathon Race of the Olympiad of 1896: The Legend of a Race
by Maria Spyropoulou-Theodoridou
Bilingual (Greek-English) edition. Soft cover, 24 cm, 90 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-618-80422-1-6.
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NZ$59.28
Great Sporting Achievements from 1896 (Summer Games) 100 Greatest Olympians
by Tracy, Jim
Adelaide: Savvas Publishing. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour , Sepia-toned and Black & White Photographs. Foreword by Dawn Fraser. 207 pages. Covering 19 sports from 23 countries, includes a full page photo and full page of biographical information for the 100 athletes included. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st...
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NZ$27.54
An Illustrated History of the Olympics
by SCHAAP, Richard
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Second edition. Revised and enlarged. Foreword by Sargent Shriver. Small stamp on the front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with some tear. A profusely illustrated overview of the Olympic games.
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NZ$34.29
Sydney 2000 - The Games of the XXVII Olympiad - The Official Souvenir Book
by BROWN, Michelle
News Custom Publishing, Melbourne, 2000. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Size: 4to Quarto. 314 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is not price clipped and in excellent condition. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are...
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NZ$17.57
![A Grouping of Nineteen [19] 3" x 5" Color and B&W 1932 Los Angeles Olympics Promotional Photos](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/324/825/1477825324.0.b.jpg)
A Grouping of Nineteen [19] 3" x 5" Color and B&W 1932 Los Angeles Olympics Promotional Photos
Softcover. Nineteen black and white and color promotional photos; diverse set of shots including Rene Duverger; Heinrich Hax; Sonja Henie; Vice President Charles Curtis and Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
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NZ$214.32
Olympic Portraits
by Annie Leibovitz
Boston: Bullfinch/Little Brown, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarto. Fine in photographically illustrated boards. Issued without dustwrapper.
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NZ$85.73
Génocide et spectacle: Une réflexion anarchiste sur le contexte à Rio de Janeiro: l'opération Choc de l'Ordre, la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA de 2014 et les Jeux Olympiques d'Éte de 2016 au Brésil
npl: Camotazo, 2014. Pamphlet. [12]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, illus., very good zine. Text in French. Originally written in 2011 by a group of anarchists associated with the Flor de Asfalto squat in Brazil.
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NZ$25.72
Full Circle
by JANSEN, Dan and Jack McCallum
New York: Villard Books, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed and dated on the half-title by the Olympic speed skating champion.
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NZ$128.60
THE BOYS IN THE BOAT Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold At the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Brown, Daniel James
Penguin Books. As New. 2021. First Printing. Paperback. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 539 pages .
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NZ$17.15
Landing on My Feet a Diary of Dreams
by Strug, Kerri with John P. Lopez
Kansas City: Mcmeel. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. 0836237080 .
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NZ$10.29
GOD DOES NOT LIVE IN LOS ANGELES ANYMORE but maybe the angels still do
by Randle, J. K
London: Hambleside Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages .
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NZ$24.00
Special Exhibition: Nezu Art Museum Commemorating the Tokyo Olympic Game
Tokyo: Nezu Art Museum, 1964. Pamphlet. 65p., wraps, illustrated with B&W photos, 6.5x7.5 inches. Postcard and exhibition ticket laid in. Show of classical Asian art for Olympic visitors.
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NZ$20.58
Atlanta 1996. Centennial Edition An Official Publication of the U.S. Olympic Committee
by United States Olympic Committee
Salt Lake City: Published byÊCommemorative Publications, Inc., 1996. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. 192, [8] p. Includes illustrations. From July 19 until August 4, 1996, Atlanta hosted the Centennial Summer Olympic Games, an event that was the largest undertaking in the city's history. In the process of hosting the games, Atlanta changed dramatically, as new sports venues were built, park space was created, sidewalks and streets were improved, and housing patterns were altered.
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NZ$60.01
1968 United States Olympic Book
by FLIEGNER, Frederick (editor)
New York: United States Olympic Committee, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine, with minor soiling and wear to the boards. Includes pictures and stories from the summer games in Mexico City, the winter games in Grenoble, and the Pan American Games in Winnipeg.
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NZ$34.29
Olympic Stud Farm: illustrated
by Reed, John
New York: Star Dist, 1982. Paperback. 180p., explicit drawings, price sticker on cover, worn first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-508. Ten Gays Who Shook Their Fannies! Red Fannies!
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NZ$42.86
Pursuit of Excellence: The Olympic Story
by The Associated Press and Grolier
New York: Franklin Watts, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with two small tears. Vividly reenacts all of the Olympic Games from 1886 to 1976.
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NZ$34.29
Beneath the Snow: Covering the resistance to the 2010 Olympics (from Feb. 2010)
by The Friendly Fire Collective
Vancouver: Decolonize Vancouver Distro, 2010. [8]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine.
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NZ$29.15
Sailing Savannah 1996
by John Rumsey
Savannah: Bell, 1996. Softcover. Near Fine. Unusual 1996 Atlanta Olympics item. The sailing competiton for the games was held in Savannah, Georgia.
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NZ$60.01
The Ancient Olympic Games
by Swaddling, Judith
University of Texas Press. Very Good. 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0292703732 . A complete reconstruction of the site buried for centuries appears in the British Museum and is reproduced in this book. "damaged books" stamped on bottom edge; however, no damage can be found and the book appears unopened. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 80 pages; 27933 .
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NZ$29.15
Olimpijskie igry / Олимпийские игры
by Sobolev P., Kalinin N. / Соболев П., Калинин Н
Физкультура и спорт, 1955. Softcover/Paperback. Fair. Дано краткое описание истории олимпийских игр, и каждого вида спорта отдельно. В приложении - результаты по видам спорта, входившим в программу олимпийских игр 1896-1952 годов.
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NZ$21.19
The Olympic Games
by ARNOLD, Peter
New York: Optimum Books, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Foot worn, else about fine in a near fine, lightly soiled dustwrapper.
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NZ$42.86
The Olympic Games in Ancient Greece - Ancient Olympia and the Olympic Games
by N. Gialouris (ed.)
In English. Cloth, 28 cm, 304 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-960-213-132-9.
An account of the dramatic rise of ancient greek athletics, centering around its crowning achievement, the olympic games. It contains chapters devoted to the social structure that favoured the development of athletics and also to the central importance ot its role in education. Each event is examined separately, its technique analysed and the book is thus comprehensive and informative, as well as a pleasure to read.
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An account of the dramatic rise of ancient greek athletics, centering around its crowning achievement, the olympic games. It contains chapters devoted to the social structure that favoured the development of athletics and also to the central importance ot its role in education. Each event is examined separately, its technique analysed and the book is thus comprehensive and informative, as well as a pleasure to read.
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NZ$140.08
The Nazi Olympics
by Richard D. Mandell
Paperback / softback. New. The Nazi Olympics is the unsurpassed expose of one of the most bizarre festivals in sport history. Not only does it provide incisive portraits of such key figures as Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens, Leni Riefenstahl, Helen Stephens, Kee Chung Sohn, and Avery Brundage, it also vividly conveys the entire dazzling charade that reinforced and mobilized the hysterical patriotism of the German masses.
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NZ$78.64
