1912 Olympic Games book presented to the key Co-founder of the Games

  Official Report of the 1912 Olympic Games, "V Olympiaden - Olympiska Spelen I Stockholm 1912"  "in pictures and words", rare deluxe edition, presented to Balck, by Hermelin & Peterson [Stockholm, 1912], 526pp, in Swedish, English, German & French.  Book is 13  1/4  x  10  3/8  x  2  1/2, 9.5 kilograms.                                 The book is bound in gilt blue leather;  the cover's logo contains the head of Pallas Athene, as the principal figure, resting on a four-sided plinth adorned with the Three Crowns of Sweden. 

Inset silken endpapers are embossed with Balck's VGB monogram.
Organizational Committee for Olympic Games in Stockholm 1912:  Balck photo in top center
Balck received number 40 of 2500 numbered copies
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