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in-8°, 315 pages, ill. in-t. en noir, broché. Bel exemplaire. [SO-2]
Slight sticker residue to DJ. ; From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social status, both in antiquity and in modern times. Mark Golden explores a variety of ways in which sport provided a route to social status. In the first essay, he explains how elite horsemen and athletes tried to ignore the important roles that jockeys, drivers, and trainers played in their victories, as well as how female owners tried to rank their equestrian achievements above those of men and other women. In the next essay, Golden looks at the varied contributions that slaves made to sport, despite its use as a marker of free, Greek status. In the third essay, he evaluates the claims made by gladiators in the Greek east that they be regarded as high-status athletes and asserts that gladiatorial spectacle is much more like Greek sport than scholars today usually admit. In the final essay, Golden critiques the accepted accounts of ancient and modern Olympic history, arguing that attempts to raise the status of the modern games by stressing their links to the ancient ones are misleading. He concludes that the contemporary movement to call a truce in world conflicts during the Olympics is likewise based on misunderstandings of ancient Greek traditions. ; Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture; 8.7 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches; 232 pages
Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Upper front corner creased. ; Key Themes In Ancient History; 8.7 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches; 232 pages
Underlining in pen and notes to some pages. Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). ; Key Themes In Ancient History; 8.7 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches; 232 pages
DJ has creasing along top edge. ; 9.4 X 6.3 X 0.7 inches; 208 pages
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Former reference copy. ; 9.4 X 6.3 X 0.7 inches; 208 pages
123p. + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous photographs. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. Nice copy. GAMES BOX 1
in-8°, 158 pages, figures, schemas et tabl., broche, couverture illustree. Bon etat. [CA29-4]
Light shelfwear to wraps. Spine creased. ; Academisch Proefschrift; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 458 pages
256 pages, illustrated, index. eng
Light edgewear to wraps. Creasing along spine. ; 30 pages
pp. (13) [Catalogue Spalding's Athletic Library], 61, (20) [Illustrated Advertisements] + portrait frontis of A. G. Spalding. Numerous full page drawings. 16mo. Original pictorial wraps. Spine and lower front cover torn with some loss. Good copy of a scarce early book on tumbling. GAMES BOX 4
168 pages, illustrated, rear endpaper removed. eng
8vo, 127 pages, 101 illustrations. Translated from the Danish by Norah Holtze. Remains of a bookplate on the inside front cover. Signed by the author on the preliminary title page. eng
Very light bump to 1 corner. Very minor shelfwear to DJ. Else Fine. ; 208pp, illustrated.; 208 pages
Foxing to inner covers. Scholar's name to ffep (Cedric Boulter). Minor shelfwear. ; 244 pages
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Small tear to DJ. Tape stains to boards. ; Reprint of the 1972 ed. 288pp, ill. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman Life; 288 pages; Sporting activity in Greece and Rome, from the first Olympic Games in 776 BC to chariot racing during the Byzantine era. The book treats not only sports history, but its philosophy and psychology as well.
12mo, 246 pages, illustrated. Former public library copy. Bookplate on the title page. eng
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of storage. 223pp. Biography of Paralympic Champion and London Marathon wheelchair winner Tanni Grey Thompson.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly marked boards and a little bumping to corners. 416pp. A very comprehensive work covering sixty-five different sports from air records to wrestling. Statistics and results since the first events ever played in many sports. Illustrated in black & white photographs.
9.2 X 6.3 X 0.9 inches; 240 pages
114p. Illustrated with numerous photographs, drawings and cartoons. Double column. Pictorial endpapers. Bookplate of Dick Boyd. 4to. Original full cloth binding, embossed in blind. Slightly worn. Hardbound. Second printing of only 5,000 copies. Nice copy. GAMES BOX 3
267p. + Frontis and photographs. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly worn at extremities. Hardbound. Nice copy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GAMES BOX 4
around 120 pages, illustrated, map,signed dedication by Brian Holdich on the title page. eng
pp. xxi, 468. Illustrated with numerous photographs. XLib. 4to. Original full buckram binding. Hardbound. Nice copy. GAMES BOX 3
