London 1948 Summer Olympics Official Report Desirable book: Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. London: Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, 1951. Hardcover bound in dark green cloth with gilt-stamped Olympic emblem, 9 x 11.5, 580 pages. A presentation bookplate from the British Olympic Association to the National Association of Boys' Clubs is affixed to the front pastedown. Book condition: VG/None, with a cracked front hinge and some foxing to endpapers.

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