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Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, 1928
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Green Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Frontispiece, Plates (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. 263 pp. Technique and strategy of lawn tennis. The first American edition, with the appendix of American rules. Well worn, frayed at corners and frayed for two inches along top front spine edge, ex-library with small faint call number on spine, small area of pocket removal residue on front pastedown, blindstamp and small number on title page, and large engraved bookplate of the Redlands Public Library on rear pastedown.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, U.S.A., 1930
Seller: Sierra Rose Antiques, Minden, NV, U.S.A.
Condition: Collectible. FINE. Green cover paperback. A rare original Parker Bros ping-pong game set instructions pamphlet. With introduction by world reknowned tennis players Bill Tilden and Francis Hunter. Parker Bos popularized the in-home game with the invention of the celluloid ball. This is a scarce piece of American indoor games ephemera. In nearly new, as printed, ocndition. [B170].
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of American Tennis player Bill Tilden's guide to his sport. The first edition of this work.A fascinating study of tennis by William Tatem Tilden II, nicknamed 'Big Bill'. Tilden was the world No. 1 amateur player for six consecutive years, from 1920 to 1925, and won 138 of 192 tournaments he contested.In this work Tilden discusses major players of his time, including Smarty Hunter, Bunny Austin, Cilly Aussem and Helen Hull Jacobs, while also providing an account of his own career.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and sixteen double sided photographic plates. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with discolouration to back strip, and with a touch of fading to the head of the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, but otherwise clean and bright. Very Good. book.