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MELBOURNE INVITATION COMMITTEE FOR OLYMPIC GAMES 1956 PRESENTATION Melbourne's Olympic Games Invitation 43 pages, facsimile signatures of Lord Dugan (Governor of Victoria), T.T Halloway (Premier of Victoria) F.R Connelly (Lord Mayor of Melbourne), Sir Frank Beaurepaire (President of the Victorian Olympic Council), plates and illustrations, chapter heading decorations of Greek key-pattern and classical athletes printed in bistre, decorative endpapers illustrating olympic events, loosely inserted Melbourne Invitation Committee compliment slip, original blue cloth, covers with blind-ruled border, upper cover with mounted illustration of a discus thrower printed on gilt paper, inserted in a pocket inside the lower cover is a 32 page french translation of the work with a folding coloured map Melbourne, a city of unrivalled loveliness, illustrartions, coloured wrappers 4to Melbourne 1948 Rare. Melbourne's initial proposal to host the 1956 Olympics. Plans for the Olympic Stadium include 'The Athletic Stadium here pictured allows for seating accommodation for more than 125,000 spectators'. A chapter headed A Bounteous Land of Opalescent Beauty includes illustartions of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, surfing beaches, Australia's tropics and 'the vast outback spaces of Australia still harbour, unique nomadic Aborigines'. Melbourne's final proposal as presented to the International Olympic Committee at Rome in April 1950 concentrated on Melbourne's facilities and avoided other issues