Accumulation of ca.200 English language books and magazines about the Olympics and sports five large boxes, with many about the history of Olympic Games, guide books, biographies, mostly post 1970s but some earlier incl. British Olympic Reports for 1948 and 1952, US reports for 1948 and 1956, Burton Holmes Travelogues with report about 1896, official report of the 7th Asian Games in Teheran, two 1930s books about swimming Signed by the authors, etc., ideal for a fair dealer.

Accumulation of ca.180 German language books in 3 large boxes about the Olympics and athletics, incl. biographies, translations of Coubertin’s books, books by Carl Diem, ca.100 post-1950s, rest mostly 1920s-30s, an interesting lot, ideal for a fair dealer but with books worthy of an Olympic library.

Music: Five song books incl. 1904 "Olympia March" by Theo Metz, 1931 "The Olympic Song" with lyrics and music by A. E. Brix and signed by him (along with handwritten note from the President of the Indian Hockey Federation at foot), 1932 "Entry of the Olympic Champions" by H. Blume showing the LA stadium on front, "Hymnen der Völfer" album of national anthems for the 1936 Berlin Games, and similar 1944 "National Anthems" in English.

"Spalding's Athletic Library", group of six presentation copies given to Baillet-Latour (ex President of the IOC) with HB covers each with Baillet-Latour's name inscribed on front, incl. "Official Handbook of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States", 1905; Official Handbook of the Public Schools Athletic League, 1906; and four Official Athletic Almanacs from 1908, 1909, 1911 and 1914, fine.

1908-33, Group of German athletics championship programmes/guide books, incl. 1908 II. Deutsches Turnfest in Frankfurt and 15th Turnfest in Stuttgart; Deutsches Akademische 1924 in Marburg (3 different) and 8th Akademisches Olympia in Königsberg; 1926 II. Deutsches Kampfspiele in Köln (2 different); and 1922 I. Deutsches Arbeiter Olympia in Leipzig and II. Arbeiter Olympia in Frankfurt.

"Spalding's Athletic Library: Official Athletic Rules and Official Handbook of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States", 1911, and Spalding's "Official Basket Ball Rules", both presentation copies given to Baillet-Latour (ex President of the IOC) with red HB cover with Baillet-Latour's name inscribed on front, fine, ex Baillet-Latour (Christie's June 1995, lot 9).

1917-62, Group of Swiss athletics literature, incl. 1942 Swiss Sports Congress "Le Passé Sportif de la Suisse", 1917 "Contribution à l'Étude de la Croissance Corporelle Physiologique entre 19 et 32 ans" by Dr Messerli, 1938 "Sportärztlichen Zentralkurs 1937 in Bern", 1945 Société Fédérale de Gymnastique Section Lausanne-Bourgeoise 1845-1945", "50 ans Comité Olympique Suisse 1912-62", "A travers les anneaux olympiques" and "Rétrospectives olympiques" by Otto Mayer and group of 1944 Jubilee incl. two programmes, two books and a magazine.

1924-36, "Olympialaiskisat" Finnish Olympic Reports, volumes 1-5 for the 1924 Paris, 1928 Amsterdam, 1932 Los Angeles and 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, all with original bindings, some cover imperfections, a rare group of books.

Olympic Games candidate city group incl. bid books for 1996 Athens (complete with box which is slightly soiled), 1994 Lausanne, 2004 Istanbul and 1992 Lillehammer, plus supplement brochures for 1996 Toronto, 2000 Berlin and 2004 Cape Town (plus A3 calendar), 1976 Sion bulletin brochure, Report of the IOC Evaluation Commission 2004, ASOIF Report for 1996 and ACNO report for 1992, 2000 Sydney bid poster and plastic bag, 1992 Brisbane book in French, plus some other ephemera.

Collection of 50+ Winter Olympics and Sports books, magazines and brochures in a large box, with ice hockey, skating (incl. 32 “Skating” magazines by US Figure Skating Assoc. magazines from 1931-55), biographies, some movie brochures, a dozen from the 1930s with 1936 Garmisch interest incl. "Living Pictures of my Figure Skating" by gold medal winner Kaarl Schäfer (scarce, complete but pen markings inside), reports from the 1949 and 1950 winter Sport Weeks in Garmisch, etc., plus a group of modern/replica posters, a useful lot of literature for the winter sports enthusiast.

Group of Olympic philatelic literature, incl. "The Golden Age" HB pp.451 by Vesvolod Furman primarily about the 1896 Athens issues, Sieger Zeppelin catalogue, "Olimpiadi e Filatelia" by Tecardi, five about 1936 issues & cancels, three about general Olympic issues, some Olymphilex brochures, auction catalogues incl. SOC, correspondence from dealer Hans Bloom, etc., a useful resource for the Olympic philatelist.