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Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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RIEFENSTAHL, Leni (1902-2003). Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf. [Beauty in the Olympic Games.] Berlin: Deutschen Verlag, 1937.
4to. 273 black and white photographs. Original gilt-lettered cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Provenance: Kurt Neubert (presentation inscription, see below); Edwin Anderson (stamp).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INCSCRIBED BY RIEFENSTAHL in German: “Cordially dedicated to Kurt Neubert as a memento of our collaboration on the Olympia film. Leni Riefenstahl, Christmas 1937.” Riefenstahl and Neubert are pictured together on pg.259. Kurt Neubert was a cinematographer who worked with Riefenstahl on the 1938 films Olympia: Fest der Völker (part 1) and Olympia: Fest der Schönheit (part 2). They had previously worked together on Der Heilige Berg (1926), and Der Grosse Sprung (1927). 101 Books, pp.96-7; Auer 255; The Photobook, vol. I, p.151 (“A lavish photobook”). A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.