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Welcome to my website
I am a retired Health & Physical Education teacher (BS., MAT., Ph.D/abd.) and an Olympic Games and Sport Historian.
My services as an independent researcher, writer & consultant are available for short or long term contracts for up to one year. I also provide appraisals in this field for books, posters and memorabilia. For students I provide proof-reading and editing for master's theses and doctoral dissertations.
Harvey Abrams-Books is my Antiquarian book business founded in 1979 while I was a Ph.D. student at Penn State University.
My website first appeared online in 1996 and has gone through several versions at different hosting sites.
In March 2020 I traveled to Europe and arrived on the day that all airports shut down, COVID kept me in Austria for 2.5 years, so I am dreadfully behind schedule.
I am the founder and President of the International Institute for Sport History (IISOH) Library & Museum
being developed in Pennsylvania. This non-profit corporation seeks to build a comprehensive collection of sports literature
in order to preserve for posterity the history of all sports, in all languages, from ancient to modern eras.
My antiquarian book business will remain open, and separate, from the IISOH at the request of the Board of Directors.
I split my time between Pennsylvania and Vienna, Austria.
This entire website is being rebuilt and is NOT up-to-date, sorry!
My focus has been on building the website at www.sportlibrary.org, and
due to the COVID-19 pandemic I was stuck outside of the USA for 2.5 years.
Limited inventory is available for sale now but cannot be shipped until DECEMBER, 2023.
The expansion of my inventory and sales that were planned for late 2020
have been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until 2024.
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Today is SEPTEMBER 23, 2023.
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Harvey Abrams, BS, MAT, Ph.d/abd
Olympic & Sport Historian
The sections below are being removed, rebuilt, corrected
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Sport in Art Poster Series
GYMNASTICS
Sponsored by the IISOH
This is a public service for the IISOH.
The IISOH is a non-profit corporation.
The poster is designed to promote
SPORT IN ART and GYMNASTICS.
As a generic gymnastics poster it promotes
the sport of Gymnastics worldwide
in ten (10) languages.
Visit the IISOH website here.
See GYMNASTICS POSTER details here.
International Olympic Academy
IOA
Greece
Anniversaries
20 - 40 - 60
Founded in 1961
20th Anniversary 1981
40th Anniversary since 1981
60th Anniversary 2021
In 1981 I was a member of the USA delegation to the International Olympic Academy in Greece.
It was the 20th Anniversary of the IOA which was founded in 1961. It was the first Olympic function following the 1980 Moscow Games, thus it was a diplomatic nightmare because the USA had led a boycott of those Games. It was the year that CHARIOTS OF FIRE, a movie about the 1924 Olympic Games, won an Academy Award as "Best Film."
My family, cousins/relatives that owned a Department Store chain in New England, donated complete sets of uniforms for our delegation. However the parcels were delivered by an employee to the wrong airport in New York. Our delegation flew from Kennedy Airport to Athens but the uniforms were delivered to LaGuardia Airport, lol. Even though the uniforms made it on the next flight to Athens the Greek Customs Officers refused to give them to me because I did not have a receipt. Those uniforms are still sitting in some warehouse in Athens.
I have created several pages to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1981 IOA, the year I attended, which would be the 60th Anniversary (hence "20-40-60"). I am gathering our history from
as many sources as possible and list the USA delegation (6 people) as well as all the participants at the Academy in 1981. Go here for the IOA pages.
Original, Vintage
1972 Munich Olympic Sports posters
OVERSIZE POSTERS
Used in Airports, train stations, etc.
HURDLES or GYMNASTICS
PRICE: $375.00 each, postpaid.
Free shipping worldwide via media rate
Otl Aicher was the head designer
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Mr. Harvey Abrams, President
International Institute for Sport History
IISOH
Library & Museum
PO Box 732
State College, PA. 16804
Sport in Art Poster Series
NOC Directory
Olympic History Pages
1928 Amsterdam
1932 Lake Placid
1936 Berlin & Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1940 Helsinki
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Olympic Games & Sport History Pages
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Written by Harvey Abrams, BS, MAT, Ph.d/abd,
Physical & Health Educator, Olympic & Sport Historian.
These pages are designed to offer basic information on the
history and origins of the Olympic Games, ancient and modern,
with lots of links to other sites. An educational service
in order to promote the Olympic Idea.
These educational pages have been relocated to the IISOH
where they will be permanently hosted.
See these pages here....
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PUBLIC NOTICE
International Institute for Sport and Olympic History
has changed its name to the
International Institute for Sport History
(IISOH)
effective November 8, 2011
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HARVEY ABRAMS-BOOKS
Services
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Olympic Specials - Books, films, etc.
Current sales list
(OUTDATED PAGE)
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Current Sales Page: GO HERE!
Olympic Games posters, Olympic films; Olympic books
Munich 1972 Olympics book
The Olympics of 1972: A Munich Diary
by Richard Mandell.
He was a guest of the German Olympic Committee and
this is his personal observation, from an insider's view.
University of North Carolina Press.
1st edition with dust jacket -- not a reprint.
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Questions?
Want to place an order?
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Consignments
Consignments of Olympic Games material are accepted, such as books, posters, medals and unique collectibles. We do not accept Olympic pins on consignment unless offered as a large collection to be sold in lots. Sports literature is welcome on almost all sport subjects. Books in all other subject areas are welcome only as a large collection to be liquidated (such as physics, history, art, science, etc).
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(Book)
50 Years
International Amateur Boxing Association
Volker Kluge, editor-in-chief.
Berlin: International Amateur Boxing Association, 1996.
192 pp., plus 16 pp. unpaginated Appendix with statistics.
ISBN: 3-00-000314-2
50th Anniversary of the International Boxing Association (Federation)
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Latest updates September 23, 2023
I will be rebuilding and updating all of the pages on this web site in the Fall & Winter months of 2023-24.
It is VERY slow and time consuming - water freezes in the dessert faster than I can write computer code, lol.
Please send me the url of broken links!
My focus is on www.sportlibrary.org and developing the IISOH endowment.
