Clearing The Bar: One Girl's Olympic Dream (FINE COPY OF SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
by Hume, Robert
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0954990943
- ISBN 13
- 9780954990947
- Seller
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Margate, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Broadstairs, Kent: Stone Publishing House, 2012. NrF. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ROBERT HUME. On half-title page, inscription reads, 'To ------/With best wishes,/Robert Hume'. ix,137pp. Illustrated with a photograph and line-drawings by Cheryl Ives. The biography of German Jewish Gretel Bergmann (1914-2017). She was an athlete who competed as a highjumper during the 1930s. Due to her Jewish origins, the Nazis prevented her from competing in the 1936 Summer Olympics, after which she she left Germany for USA and vowed never to return. Intended for a teenage, young adult readership. A near fine copy of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ROBERT HUME.. Presentation Copy Inscribed & Signed. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by Cheryl Ives.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20239
- Title
- Clearing The Bar: One Girl's Olympic Dream (FINE COPY OF SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
- Author
- Hume, Robert
- Illustrator
- Cheryl Ives
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0954990943
- ISBN 13
- 9780954990947
- Publisher
- Stone Publishing House
- Place of Publication
- Broadstairs, Kent
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Teenage Readers. Young Adult Readers. History. 1936 German Olympics. Hitler Olympics. Olympic Games. Sport. History Of Sport. Biography. Cheryl Ives. Gretel Bergmann. Nazi Olympics. Gender. Gender Stuies. Women. Womens Studies. Female
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- Sports and Pastimes; Sociology;
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Greystone Books is situated in Kent, England. We have been selling on the internet since 1999. We sell collectable books and try to stock obscure and scare non-fiction titles.
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