"Wonders of the snowshoe" - A system of correct skiing and its application in alpine cross-country skiing. Original edition from 1925, magnificently illustrated with 242 photographic images and 162 strips with 1100 cinematographic series images, stills of ski runs. SPECTACULAR PHOTOBOOK OBJECT by Arnold Fanck and Hannes Schneider. There were different editions published - here the much more uncommon, highly attractive edition as two volumes set with photo-illustrated, highly impressive slipcase. TRUE FIRST PRINTING FROM 1925 - with book and with portfolio (with all plates) and with slipcase. COMPLETE AND IN SUCH OVERALL VERY FRESH CONDITION EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND. Arnold Fanck (1889 - 1974) was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), Der weisse Rausch (1931) and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers during the Weimar years in Germany, including Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, and cinematographers Sepp Allgeier, Richard Angst, Hans Schneeberger and Walter Riml. If you love photo books, YOU’VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE. I PROUDLY PRESENT my next one-seller-auction - with SOME OF THE BEST PHOTOBOOKS EVER. A classic of skiing and at the time a photographic masterpiece, because of the pictures in a row one can study very well the technic of skiing. A very important book for the history of photography and film, but skiing fans will also get their money's worth. If you win more than 1 of my books in this auction - YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS (WORLDWIDE). Arnold Fanck is famous for many great photobooks like "Das Bilderbuch des Skikäufers" (1932), which is mentioned here: Manfred Heiting, Roland Jäger, Autopsie, Band 2, page 284. One other Arnold Fanck book is offered here in this auction: "Der Kampf mit dem Berge". Gebrüder Enoch, Hamburg. 1925. First edition, first printing. Two volumes in blue linen (book plus portfolio) in photo-illustrated slipcase. 235 x 300 pages. Book with 218 pages (text and 242 photographic images) plus 22 pages with notes on the cinematographic series images. Portfolio with loose plates (162 strips with 1100 cinematographic series). Photography: Arnold Fanck and Sepp Allgeier. Text in German. Condition: Book inside fresh and clean with no marks; first two pages and last page of the book lightly foxed, otherwise fresh and with no other remarkable flaws or defects. Book outside fresh with very light trace of use only; right and bottom edge mariginally foxed. Portfolio fresh and complete with no missing pages or plates; first blank page lightly foxed, all other pages fresh and flawless. Slipcase a bit used and rubbed at the corners with small teat at the opening, but complete and highly impressive; bigger stain on the rear side. Overall fine condition. BREATH-TAKING PHOTOBOOK-PROJECT - in great, better than usual condition. This is an auction by 5Uhr30.com. THANKS TO EVERYONE WORLDWIDE for your support. A very detailed textbook on skiing, in which the then revolutionary idea of making the movement sequences visible through the sequence of film images was realised. Muybridge's experiments are included here for didactic purposes. "In a cinematographic recording, we receive between 20 and 100 individual images of each movement, on which we have each individual phase of the movement captured in the image in front of us. For this book, the result of five years' work with around 40,000 metres of film, more than 2 million individual images, was available as illustrative material. These include my first two ski films 'Wunder des Schneeschuhs' and 'Eine Fuchsjagd auf Schneeschuhen durch Engadin', as well as the ski instruction film 'Die weiße Kunst', which was shot by Sepp Allgeier in the winter of 1924."