Bonnie Prudden's Fitness Book, A Picture Guide with Exercises and Reducing Plans

New York : The Ronald Press Co., 1959. Book. Illus. by Photographs by Sports Illustrated. Very Good Plus. Cloth. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on bookshop book plate affixed to front end page, presumably where a signing was held. First Edition, Very Good Plus, slight shading to white cloth at top edges, tiny corner bumps, a bit of rubbing to bottom letter at spine. In a Very Good dust jacket, chips at spine ends and top corner front panel and along edges. SCARCE in dust jacket and SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Bonnie Prudden (1914-2011) Bonnie Prudden was an American physical fitness pioneer, rock climber and mountaineer. Her report to President Dwight Eisenhower based on her 1955 research known as "The Report that Shocked the President", on the unfitness of American children as compared with their European counterparts, led to the formation of the President's Council on Youth Fitness. Her Fitness Book laid the foundational blueprint for the modern fitness movement by shifting exercise from an elite athletic pursuit to a daily necessity for the general public. An essential work for any fitness library, SIGNED copies of any of her early books are SCARCE. .