HARVEY ABRAMS-BOOKS
Olympic Games - History of Sport
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Antiquarian book dealer specializing in
Olympic Games & Sports books,
posters, medals, medallions, badges & collectibles

Olympic Games - Jeux Olympiques - Olympische Spiele
Juegos Olimpicos - Giochi Olimpici
PO Box 732
State College, PA., USA 16804
tel: (814) 321-4018
email: Olympicbks@aol.com

     

Welcome to my website

Today is Thursday, AUGUST 22, 2024.

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.

COVID-19 caused a major disruption in my life so I am dreadfully behind schedule and I am still trying to "catch up.".

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 central Pennsylvania and Vienna, Austria.
This entire website is being rebuilt and is NOT up-to-date yet, sorry!
My focus has been on building the website at www.sportlibrary.org.

Limited inventory is available for sale now.
The expansion of my inventory and sales that were planned for late 2020
have been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic until 2025.
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UPDATE: AUGUST 22, 2024: I am slowly re-building this frontpage. Sale items are at the TOP PART of the page. Most linked pages at the bottom are not up-to-date.

Harvey Abrams, BS, MAT, Ph.d/abd
Olympic & Sport Historian



1992 OFFICIAL REPORTS for SALE
$475.00 per set
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These Official Reports make wonderful gifts for friends, organizations, libraries and businesses.

NOTE:
Free shipping in the USA

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Barcelona Olympic Games
Official Report

Available in
ENGLISH edition
or
SPANISH edition


Memoria Oficial de los Juegos
de la XXV Olimpiada Barcelona 1992


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Large, heavy books, inside slipcases
4 volumes, 1776 pp.

32 pounds shipping weight.
Price: $475



See more about this English language edition)

See more about this Spanish language edition


HOW TO ORDER
&
HOW TO PAY

Go here to see
HOW TO PAY.

Gymnastics
Posters & Books



GYMNASTICS: The Art of Sport
by Eileen Langsley

see also....

1972 Munich Olympic Gymnastics poster






(Book)

FASCINATION of BOXING



Book cover Fascination Boxing by Kluge
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)



RICHARD D. MANDELL
The Olympics of 1972: A Munich Diary

$23.50
free shipping in the USA





The Olympics of 1972: A Munich Diary
by Richard Mandell.

Richard Donald "Dick" Mandell (1929 - 2013)
was a sport historian who spent most of his career
at the University of South Carolina. He was the author
of six (6) books including "...Munich Diary..."



Paris 1900, the Great World's Fair (1967)
The Nazi Olympics (1971)
The First Modern Olympics (1976)
The Professor Game (1977)
Sport: A Cultural History (1986)

The West German Olympic Committee made his 1936 book required reading for all personel at the Munich Olympic Games and he was invited as their guest to Munich. This book is his personal observation, from an insider's view, of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

University of North Carolina Press.
1st edition with dust jacket -- not a reprint.
Condition is new as I acquired the Publisher's entire inventory.


International Institute for Sport History
IISOH
Library & Museum

Mr. Harvey Abrams, President
International Institute for Sport History
IISOH
Library & Museum
PO Box 732
State College, PA. 16804

Link to:
IISOH Library & Museum

NOC Directory
Olympic History Pages
Sport in Art Poster Series



Olympic Games & Sport History Pages
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/are still being relocated to the IISOH website where they will be updated and revised then permanently hosted.
See these pages here....


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
The IISOH is a Pennsylvania non-profit
educational, literary and research corporation
under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Federal Tax ID# 41-2041155

The IISOH is organized to operate a Library and Museum for the
History of Sport, Physical Education, Recreation, Dance,
Sport in Art and the Olympic Games.

The IISOH was originally hosted here from 2001 to 2009
as a public service and has moved to its own website at

https://www.sportlibrary.org



As a public service we post here an ACKNOWLEDGEMENT page
for the donors who have supported the IISOH

Donor Acknowledgements


HARVEY ABRAMS-BOOKS
Services

Buying & Selling
Consignment sales
Appraisal service
Research, writing & consulting


Questions?
Want to place an order?
email: Olympicbks@aol.com

Ask a question, place an order, inquire about catalogs or consignments.


1972 Munich Olympic Games Art Series POSTER
By
JOSEF ALBERS


Limited edition
Series #2 (edition of 2,000/4,000)

$6,000.00 postpaid worldwide

Free shipping worldwide.

Available now, shipping within 48 hours of payment.

Original Vintage Poster

1964 TOKYO OLYMPIAD film poster


by
Kon Ichikawa

Spanish language version





Rare. I have only seen this twice since 1979.
Condition: Very good. Originally this poster was folded so there are creases,
some minor wear with some holes at the folded sections.
Stored flat, shipped rolled in a tube.

Read a nice article about the film itself here.
The link takes you to another website called "The Conversation"
and is not affiliated with Harvey Abrams-BOOKS.






$1,250.00 postpaid worldwide


Available now, shipping within 24 hours of payment.




ORIGINAL OLYMPIC POSTERS 1972 MUNICH

28Posters.jpg
I have four (4) pages devoted to the POSTERS
of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games



Olympia 1

My History Page for the 1972 Munich
posters that are officially known as:
EDITION OLYMPIA

Olympia 2

1972 Munich Olympic
ARTIST SERIES POSTERS


Olympia 3

1972 Munich Olympic
SPORTS SERIES POSTERS


Olympia 4

1972 Munich Artist series
COMPLETE SET of 29 POSTERS



Sport in Art Poster Series
GYMNASTICS

Sponsored by the
International Institute for Sport History
IISOH
Library & Museum



IISOH Gymnastics poster, Julius jumping over the vault

 (This post is a public service for the IISOH).

The IISOH is a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation
under section 501(c)3 of the IRS CODE.

The poster is designed to promote
- SPORT IN ART
- SPORT PHOTOGRAPHY
- ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS and
 The IISOH Library & Museum

As a generic gymnastics poster it promotes
the sport of Gymnastics worldwide
in ten (10) different languages.

Notice the athlete's exhilaration as he flies through the air
to land his hands on the vault and then flip over to land on his feet.
The photographer has caught the action in motion.
Every gymnast and sport facility should have this poster on their walls!

Visit the IISOH website here.

See GYMNASTICS POSTER details here.

International Olympic Academy
IOA
Greece
Anniversaries
20 - 40 - 60





IOA was Founded in 1961
20th Anniversary was in 1981
40th Anniversary since 1981
60th Anniversary in 2021


In 1981 I was a member of the United States delegation
selected to attend the International Olympic Academy in Greece.
It was the 20th Anniversary of the IOA which was founded in 1961,
so it was a very special celebration.

BUT it was also the first Olympic function following the
1980 MOSCOW Olympic 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.



In honor of that event 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.

Click here for the IOA pages


www.harveyabramsbooks.com/IOA1981.html
Central High School
Graduating class of 1967
226th Class
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
of Philadelphia, PA



Class 226
Web page hosted by Harvey Abrams
HOME PAGE

226 Class Directory
Listing almost 500 classmates

Contact - Kontakt


Mr. Harvey Abrams
HARVEY ABRAMS-BOOKS
Specializing in History of Sport and the Olympic Games since 1979
P.O. Box 732
State College, PA, USA 16804
email: Olympicbks@aol.com

home page: https://www.harveyabramsbooks.com

The International Institute for Sport History (IISOH)
has moved to its own website at
www.sportlibrary.org



We also have a very nice site being re-built at www.iisoh.org


Host to the Central High School of Philadelphia
Class 226 web pages


Latest updates AUGUST 22, 2024

I will be rebuilding and updating all of the pages on this web site in the winter of 2024-25.
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.


ABOUT ME:
Harvey Abrams (BS, MAT, Ph.D/abd in Physical Education)
Educator in Health & Physical Education
Director of Sport & Student Activities, JFK School, West Berlin, Germany (1982-1987)
Retired wrestler, wrestling coach, FILA referee
Personal Defense Instructor
Olympic Games & Sport Historian
Independent Scholar, researcher, writer, consultant
Antiquarian bookdealer, appraiser
Graphic designer, photographer
US Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Trials 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984
International Olympic Academy (IOA) 1981, representing the USA
Founder, Philadelphia Amateur Wrestling Club (PAWC, 1973)
Founder, HARVEY ABRAMS-BOOKS (1979)
Founder, International Institute for Sport History (IISOH, 2001)
Central HS of Philadelphia (BA degree, 1967 - the "226")
Penn State University (BS, 1971)
Southeast Missouri State University (MAT, 1972-1973/1979)
Concordia University;
Boson Sports College, Stockholm, Sweden;
University of Jyvaskyla, Finland;
University of Augsburg, Munich, Germany
Penn State University (Ph.D/abd)


LINKS - IISOH Library & Museum
A Pennsylvania Non-profit corporation

International Institute for Sport History
Articles of Incorporation
IISOH Bylaws
Board of Directors
Mission Statement
Charter Membership Program & Donations
Donor Acknowledgement - A Public "thank you"
Endowment Program
Subject list of endowments
Sports Philanthropy
Internship & Volunteer opportunities

LINKS -- HARVEY ABRAMS-BOOKS
Olympic Games & Sports related pages:
Current Sales List
1972 Munich Olympic Posters: ART SERIES & VENUE POSTERS
Harvey Abrams-BOOKS: Buying, Consignments, Appraisals
Gymnastics books & posters
Wrestling Poster 1001
AIBA Fascination Boxing; 50 Years AIBA
World's Fairs & Expositions:
Catalog 11 - Expositions & World Fairs
Book Trade Directories:
Sheppard's Book Dealer Directories

LINK: Central High School of Philadelphia -- 226th class (1967)

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL of Philadelphia, PA
Class 226 -- Main Page

226 Class Directory listing almost 500 classmates

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