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188554702New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1885. First American edition. Pp. 90 6 ads. 1 vols. 12mo. Light blue pictorial cloth. Ex-library with engraved bookplate embossed stamp in title page margin pocket on back pastedown paper label at head of spine. Attractive internally clean very good plus. First American edition. Pp. 90 6 ads. 1 vols. 12mo. Phelps & Sabine p. 152 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
190549905London: ÒLawn TennisÓ 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. London: ÒLawn TennisÓ 1905. First edition. Numerous b/w illustrations. iv 550-616 452 pp. Hardcover. 4to. Dark green pebbled cloth. Shallow impressions indicating that the individual magazines had been vertically folded in thirds before being bound together else clean and tight. Very good/No jacket issued. Insurance required to ship this item. ÒLawn TennisÓ hardcover books
16452Helen Willis. Time: the Weekly News-Magazine. July 26 1926. Vol. VIII No. 4. Time Publishing Company. Helen Wills is known as one of the greatest woman tennis players of all time. She won 31 Grand Slam titles during her career 2 Olympic gold medals and was the Wimbledon champion a record-setting 8 times record unbroken until 1990. In 1933 forty years before the "Battle of the Sexes" match in which Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in an exhibition game Helen Wills defeated Phil Neer then the #8 nationally ranked male tennis player in the US. This issue of Time featuring Wills across the cover was the same year as the "Match of the Century" wherein Wills then ranked #2 in the world faced Suzanne Lengdon the #1 ranked French star. Very good condition. unknown books
1931WRCAM34641New York: United States Lawn Tennis Association 1931. 256pp. Original green cloth gilt-lettered cover and spine. Bookplates on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown. Light rubbing. Near fine. A narrative and photographic history of lawn tennis in the United States aka: dandies in white pants. United States Lawn Tennis Association hardcover books
1960288052La Habana Cuba: El Lyceum y el Club 1960. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. The 1960 issue of floral arrangements for sale by the Lyceum of La Habana Cuba published a few years after the end of the Cuban Revolution. With a list of floral arrangements and advertisements throughout. Text in Spanish. Minor foxing to the first and final pages verso of the covers and edges of the textblock. Similarly minor wear to the paper binding. Stapled paperback. Three institutional holdings listed on OCLC. Very Good binding. El Lyceum y el Club unknown books
16663Althea GIbson. Tennis legend and first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis. c. 1970. Photo signed. 10 x 8 in. Signed in black marker "To Ray Kenter with Best Wishes Althea". Gibson became the first African-American to compete at the U.S. National Championships. Gibson had a jam-packed eight-year career with all of her major championships coming from 1956 to 1958 when she appeared in a stunning 19 major finals and won 11 titles including single and doubles championships at the Australian Open French Open Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals. Gibson was the first non-white woman to win a major tennis championship and only one other woman of color had claimed this honor until Serena Williams won the US Open in 1999. At the height of her career she was ranked No. 1 tennis player in the world; after she retired from tennis Gibson became the first African-American to compete on the women's professional golf tour in 1960. unknown books
