Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Maraniss, David
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New in As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1416534075
- ISBN 13
- 9781416534075
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster. As New in As New dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1416534075 . A most attractive unread first edition/first printing in pictorial boards and endpapers. As New condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED and dated (October 11 2008) by Pulitzer Prize winning author David Maraniss directly on the title page; Some of the athletes competing in the 1960 Rome Olympics are legendary - decathlete Rafer Johnson, sprinter Wilma Rudolph, and Louisville boxer Cassius Clay at 18 years old, four years before he became Muhammad Ali. But at the dawn of the 1960s change was apparent everywhere. The first doping scandal, the first televised Summer Games, East and West Germans competing as a unified team months before the Berlin Wall. Meticulously researched with Appendix, Notes and comprehensive Index; 8vo; xvi, 478, [2] pages; Signed by Author .
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Includes bibliographical references.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19778
- Title
- Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Maraniss, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1416534075
- ISBN 13
- 9781416534075
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Olympics, 1960s The Sixties, Pulitzer Prize Author
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