May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
RIEFENSTAHL, LENI.
Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf * Beauty in the Olympic Games.

Together, two volumes, each illustrated with gravure reproductions of Riefenstahl's photographs of the 1936 Olympics held in Germany. Large 4tos, gilt-lettered red buckram and photo-pictorial wrappers, wrappers edgeworn; foredge of text block lightly foxed on the former; photo-pictorial dust jacket on the former, worn with inexpert repairs. Roth 96. first editions.
Berlin: Im Deutschen Verlag, (1937); (Japan), 1940