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SPORT IN ITALY - MID 1930s AMERICAN EDITION
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This is the Fascist era Edizione Americana or American Edition of Sport in Italy published by E.N.I.T. (Ente Nazionale Industrie Turistiche), Italy’s National Tourist Office and Ferrovie dello Stato, Italy's National Railway Company.
The tourism publication for American visitors to Mussolini’s Italy starts with a picture of the Foro Mussolini, the huge modern “National Stadium of the Fascist Party” in Rome which could hold up to 100,000 spectators - a huge number at that time.
The tourism publication for American visitors to Mussolini’s Italy starts with a picture of the Foro Mussolini, the huge modern “National Stadium of the Fascist Party” in Rome which could hold up to 100,000 spectators - a huge number at that time.
Car races, boat regattas, bicycle races and tours, rowing, boxing and wrestling events, soccer, horse racing, golf, tennis, hunting and fishing, and skiing in famous villages in the Dolomites such as Cortina d’Ampezzo, for example.
Italian victories and records are noted in several international sporting championships, including the latest aviation record (July 1933) set by Italo Balbo.
Italian victories and records are noted in several international sporting championships, including the latest aviation record (July 1933) set by Italo Balbo.
This undated mid 1930s tourist publication emphasizes sun-drenched shores of the Mediterranean and Adriatic coast, Italy’s young population and recent accomplishments in agriculture, industry, commerce, as well as the fact that sport lovers will be able to find just as many amusements as art and history aficionados.
The text in this 6 x 7-¾ inch, heavily illustrated 32-page tourist booklet addresses the mindset of most foreign visitors to Italy - “recollections of impressions set forth by romanticists of the last century in books” regarding culture, history and ancient architectural treasures.
Every page has a black & white picture of the sport discussed as well as an illustration of it printed in orange ink.
This rare 90+ year old American Edition of Sport in Italy is in very good, little used condition, and has no writing or odor.
Also for sale on USMBOOKS.com, a 1940 Nazi publication about Italy's Armed Forces, Ten Years of Italian Progress, 1937 German language tourist information for the port city of Genoa and a lot of 3 original 1930s Saturnia Vulcania Italian cruise ship brochures. We are happy to combine shipping of multiple purchases!
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These sporting events and possibilities are organized with “discipline”, and visitors are able to enjoy modern accommodations, simple and fancy, according to this heavily illustrated example of Sport in Italy.
SPORT IN ITALY
MID 1930s FASCIST ITALIAN TOURIST PUBLICATION FOR ACTIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING VISITORS TO MUSSOLINI’S ITALY
