Portrait in Motion

Ashe, Arthur, with Frank Deford

ISBN 10: 0395204291 / ISBN 13: 9780395204290

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1975

About this Item

272pp. 8vo. Green cloth over boards, stamped spine. Book is a first edition and a first printing (number line starts with 1). Book is unread, unclipped, tight and jacket has a Brodart protector. Book spine ends are slightly pushed, and jacket shows a bit of shelf wear on its extremities, with a repaired tear also on back of dust jacket. Book is about the amount of travel that tennis players were faced with when tennis changed from mostly an amateur sport to professional. The players had to travel almost non-stop from one tournament to another. There is a section of black and white photos that show Ashe on and off the tennis court. Two of the action photos of Ashe were taken by me--The Forehand and The Backhand. The match was at the Pro Tennis Tourney in Brookline, Massachusetts. Seller Inventory # 0003855

Bibliographic Details

Title: Portrait in Motion

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston

Publication Date: 1975

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near fine

Dust Jacket Condition: very good +

Edition: First edition. First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

Between Wimbledon 1973 and Wimbledon 1974 top tennis professional Arthur Ashe played center court on five continents, made 129 airplane trips, slept in 71 different beds, and traveled 165,000 miles. The dramatic diary he kept throughout that time on and off the court is the basis of this book. of photographs.

From Publishers Weekly:

Ashe's diary of the 1973-74 tennis season, one of his most successful as a player. Photos.
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