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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. hardcover book with black cloth boards and gold foil lettering and NRA logo on front cover. Boards are rigid and warp-free. Spine is flat and square. Corners are crisp. No previous owner marks (no names, no underlining, no bookplates, etc). No remainder marks. Faintest color transfer from dust jacket to end paper. Pages are clean and crisp. DUST JACKET complete, NOT price-clipped [$12.95]. Shows light rubbing, minor chips, small nicks. A 0.25 x 0.5" piece missing from front top edge. Will be protected with an archival book jacket cover. Photos coming! In the meantime, contact us now to request pictures of the ACTUAL book you will receive. All of our books are in-stock and ready to be shipped immediately. Oversized and may require extra postage for Priority and/or International shipping. Contents: PART I — THE ORIGINS • The Origin of the Olympic Games • Shooting in the Olympics • Amateurism, A Special Problem to the Shooter • How Shooting is Organized PART II — THE EVENTS • The Shooting Events in the Olympic Games • Three Position Rifle Matches • The Smallbore Rifle Prone Match • The Free Pistol Event • The Rapid Fire Pistol Match • The Clay Target Shotgun Event • The Skeet Match • The Running Game Event PART III — THE OLYMPIADS • 1896 — Athens: The First Shots for The Record • 1900 — Paris: And It Was A Mistake • 1904 — St. Louis: In The U.S., But No Shooting • 1906 — Athens: But Not For Real • 1908 — London: The Games Become An Event • 1912 — Stockholm: Everything But The Kitchen Sink • 1920 — Antwerp: No Kitchen Sink • 1924 — Paris: No Kitchen Sink • 1928 — Amsterdam: Another Games Without Shooting • 1932 — Los Angeles: On U.S. Soil, But Problems Develop • 1936 — Berlin: Amateurs Once Again • International Shooting Reorganizes After World War II • 1948 — London: The Cookie Does Not Crumble • 1952 — Helsinki: The Soviet Shooters Arrive • 1956 — Melbourne: Caviar On Our Faces • 1960 — Rome: 100% Improvement, One Plus One • 1964 — Tokyo: Training Does Pay Off • 1968 — Mexico City: The Land of Manana • 1972 — Munich: The Happy Games • 1976 — Montreal: A Reading Issue And A U.S. First • 1980 — Moscow APPENDICES • U.S. Olympic Shooting Team Members And Officials • Olympic Champions By Event • Biathlon • Modern Pentathlon • Bibliography.…

1st edition dust jacket Near Fine Quarto 136pp., b/w pls., bibliog., A History of the various shooting competitions in the Olympic Games from 1896.