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GUNDER HAGG - SLAR REKORD

GUNDER HAGG - SLAR REKORD

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Athletics biography of the Swedish middle-distance running legend of the 1930s and 40s, with photographic illustrations; published in Swedish.

8vo. 63pp. Cloth-covered boards. Rubbing to boards otherwise good condition internally. Signed to half-title page by Torsten Lindquist, the Swedish modern pentathlete who competed in the 1952 Olympic Games. Lindquist has added extensive pencil annotations to the illustrations in English, adding informative and important contextual information to each one.

Date
1942
Publisher
Stockholm: Ahlen & Akerlunds
Author
Gunvald HAKANSON

£30.00 (Code: 84656)

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