390 Olympic Games memorabilia, a calendar of events for Paris 1924; five official daily programmes for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, August 3, 4, 10 (punch-holed), 13 (punch- holed) & 14 and also a stadium pass; A 3-D photograph album of the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games, So Kampften Sie by Valentin Reisdorf, German, 100 stereoscopic photographs, 112 pages, lush red linen covers contain 100 stereoscopic photos plus the stereoscopic glasses in 6 pockets, very good condition, and other 1952 items, a British Olympic Association Official Report, two related Athletics Weekly magazines, and a postal cover of a gymnast with a Helsinki Olympic postage stamp; together with a miscellany of Olympic memorabilia 1960 to 2004, programmes, tickets, reports, souvenir publications, philately, some autographed items etc. (a qty.) £250 - 350


393 A signed manuscript letter from Lord Burghley dated 8th September 1927,


391 Harbott (R.) Olympia und die Olympischen Spiele von 776v.Chr. bis 1924, Dresden (1924 364 pp. illus. plus 7pp. charts of results 1896-1924, history of the ancient Greek Olympic Games and the modern Games from 1896, published in conjunction with the 1924 Paris Games; sold together with Die Olympischen Spiele-Paris 1924, Julius Wagner’s report on the 1924 Summer and Winter Olympic Games, in German, very detailed and lavishly illustrated, hardcover (2) £150 - 200


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392 Olympic publications, comprising: a British Olympic Association official instructions booklet for the 1924 Paris Olympic Games; the remainder relating to the 1948 London Olympic Games and comprising the Official Report, two athletics programmes, and two souvenir booklets (6) £50 - 80


on Burghley House headed paper, three pages in ink, addressed to the British athlete Laurie Edwards a former half mile world champion and later trainer to Derby County Football Club, the letter begins with Lord Burleigh thanking Edwards for his invitation to watch his football team play in London, the remainder a discussion on athletics and how his season was going, and describes a meeting in Germany where he “took a beating from [Joachim] Buchner in the 400 metre in 48 1/10th, a very useful time”; this letter and the other items in the lot were in the possessions of Laurie Edwards and the lot includes his blue silk running vest stitched with a Union Jack, seven various photos/postcards including one of Edwards wearing this very vest; and a clipping from the Derby Express 21.7.1923 discussing the excellent training techniques Edwards had introduced at Derby County (10 items)


The following athletics season Lord Burghley won the gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games. Incidentally, his German rival Buchner ran in the 400m flat winning a bronze medal in a time 1/10th of a second slower than when he had beaten Lord Burghley in the 1927 race in Germany. £200 - 300


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