Search Results: Authors starting with F from Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare

Multicolor ink on white commercial stock. Color print, pencil signed. A4 (ca. 8.25 x 11.75 in. Very good ; loosely inserted into an acid free shadow box frame (maybe shipped framed or unframed as the customer wishes).

[Cover title: Reglas Oficiales de Atletismo.] 66 pp. rule book for international sporting competitions. 8vo. Very good. Illus. stiff wraps, saddle stapled. [1185]
Primarily of interest for the superb but uncredited estridentismo illustration that graces the front cover. "Aceptados por la Federación Atlética Internacional de aficionados, en el Congreso de La Haya, en agosto de 1926, con las adiciones y reformas hechas en el congreso de Amsterdam, en 1928." As of February 2021, we can locate only one holding in North America, at the National Library of Mexico.

Mimeograph, with stipple and ink illustrations, 5 leaves of text presenting a timeline ; 5 leaves of names and addresses for company personnel. 8vo. Very good. Front wrapper embellished with stamps in red indicating "Top Secret" "Secret" "Confidential" "Restricted" all crossed out in blue pen, under which "Aw, What the Hell!" is written in black ink. [526]
A curious memento of a Forward Echelon Command Party company's involvement in the liberation of Paris, with a timeline showing the group's movements from July 11 to September 28, 1944, and current addresses for members.

48 pp. bound typescript with manuscript corrections, German language. 4to. Very good. Black paper wrappers with title texts and author in white ink. [1315]
A fascinating original work, perhaps by an advanced student or young teacher, concerning the political pedagogy of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of modern gymnastics, and his importance for German ethno-nationalism's spiritual and athletic preoccupations. The text is a chilling demonstration of the links between the sport of gymnastics and ideas of physical perfection and the purification of bodies that Nazis advocated. We believe it was never published. No record in OCLC.