Feb 21, 2019 - Sale 2499

Sale 2499 - Lot 120

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LENI RIEFENSTAHL.
Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf [Beauty in the Olympic Games].
With numerous reproductions of Riefenstahl's photographs of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. 4to, gilt-lettered red buckram, just lightly edgeworn; photo-pictorial dust jacket, light edgewear and faint soiling. Roth 96. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RIEFENSTAHL AND JESSE OWENS.
Berlin: Im Deutschen Verlag, (1937)

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This title is signed and inscribed by Riefenstahl to Dr. David Hinton, the author of The Films of Leni Riefenstahl (1978), the first book published on the subject. Hinton first met Riefenstahl in 1975 and remained friends with her until her death in 2003. The title was additionally inscribed to Hinton by Jesse Owens, who he met in Des Moines, Iowa. At that meeting, Owens noted that he had remained in touch with Riefenstahl.