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Los Angeles: Published by the Xth Olympiad Committee, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg. Folio. 814, [2]pp. Original illustrated black and white-stamped orange cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. Color frontispiece. Exhaustive and extensively illustrated official report of the 1932 Olympic games. The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the Xth Olympiad, was a major world wide multi-athletic event which was celebrated in Los Angeles. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during the worldwide Great Depression, many nations and athletes were unable to pay for the trip to Los Angeles. Fewer than half the participants of the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam returned to compete in 1932. Even U.S. President Herbert Hoover skipped the event. Despite this, the standard of competition was excellent. The Coliseum Olympic stadium astonished the whole world. Its scale and quality were beyond anything that had come before, creating the first Games we… Read More

Darmstadt: Alexander Koch, 1911. First edition. Softcover. g+ to vg. Quarto (11 1/2 x 8 3/8"). Original decorative stiff wrappers, with black lettering to front cover. Spanning 36 centuries, this lavishly photo-illustrated monograph explores the fascinating world of glass beads and beadmaking, one of the oldest human arts dating back 1,500 BC. This work contains 94 in-text b/w photographic reproductions, as well as 7 full-page plates (of which 6 are reproduced in photogravure) Minor age-toning to wrappers. Moderate foxing to endpapers. Text in German. Wrappers in overall good+ to very good, interior in very good condition. About the author: Gustav Edmund Pazaurek (1865-1935) was a Czech-German art historian. In 1906, he became director of the Landes-Gewerbemuseums (State-Crafts Museum) in Stuttgart, and from 1913 to 1932 was appointed Director of the decorative arts department in the same museum. Gustav Pazaurek was a preeminent member of the Deutscher Werkund (German Association of Craftsmen),… Read More