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PHOTOBOOKS -- RIEFENSTAHL, Leni. Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf . [Beauty in the Olympic Games.] Berlin: Deutschen Verlag, 1937. 4° (310 x 235mm). 273 black and white photographs. Original cloth, spine and front cover blocked in gilt, original pictorial dust-jacket, publisher's slipcase stamped 'Riefenstahl' (dust-jacket with light wear at the edges including a short tear near the spine, slipcase lacking the flap but otherwise strong and fresh).
PHOTOBOOKS -- RIEFENSTAHL, Leni. Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf . [Beauty in the Olympic Games.] Berlin: Deutschen Verlag, 1937. 4° (310 x 235mm). 273 black and white photographs. Original cloth, spine and front cover blocked in gilt, original pictorial dust-jacket, publisher's slipcase stamped 'Riefenstahl' (dust-jacket with light wear at the edges including a short tear near the spine, slipcase lacking the flap but otherwise strong and fresh). FIRST EDITION, A BRIGHT COPY IN THE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE. Riefenstahl's monument to the 1936 Olympics. 'These are such exquisite, such transcendentally beautiful images of athletes, that one almost forgets their context' ( 101 Books ). 101 Books , pp.96-7; Auer, p.255; The Photobook , vol. I, p.151 ('a lavish photobook').