Item 365929Great Lawn Tennis Players. Their Methods Illustrated.
Price: $200
London: Macmillan, 1905. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Great Lawn Tennis Players. Their Methods Illustrated Add to Wish List
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Sports & Games > Tennis
Item 314566How to Play Tennis.
Price: $225
New York: Outing Publishing, 1915. First edition. Read More Item Details for How to Play Tennis Add to Wish List
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Item 314574The Science of Lawn Tennis.
Price: $250
Philadelphia: Inners & Sons, 1910. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Science of Lawn Tennis Add to Wish List
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Item 313616On Lawn Tennis: The Game of Nations.
Price: $250
NY: Baker and Taylor, 1903. First edition. Read More Item Details for On Lawn Tennis: The Game of Nations Add to Wish List
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Item 239351A History of Royal Tennis in Australia.
Price: $175
[Victoria, Australia]: Historical Publications, [1983]. First Trade edition. Read More Item Details for A History of Royal Tennis in Australia Add to Wish List
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INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS
Item 365971The Education of a Tennis Player.
Price: $150
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1971]. Second printing, signed and inscribed by both authors. Read More Item Details for The Education of a Tennis Player Add to Wish List
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First separate edition
Item 243817Country Contentments: or, The Husbandmans Recreations. Contayning the wholesome Experiences, in which any man ought to Recreate himselfe after the...
Price: $2,000
London: Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Iohn Harison, at the golden Unicorne in Pater-noster-row, 1631. "The fourth edition. Newly Corrected, Enlarged, and Adorned with many excellent Additions, as may appeare by this marke [pointing hand]" First separate edition. First published in 1615 (STC 17342), with its companion book THE ENGLISH..... Read More Item Details for Country Contentments: or, The Husbandmans Recreations. Contayning the wholesome Experiences, in which any man ought to Recreate himselfe after the toyle of more serious Businesse. As namely, Hunting, Hawking, Coursing with Grey-hounds and the lawes of the Lease, Shooting in Long-bowe or Cross-bowe, Bowling, Tennis, Baloone. The whole Art of Angling, and the use of the Fighting Cocke. By G M Add to Wish List
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Item 316809A History of Tennis.
Price: $2,250
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1924. First edition, one of 800 copies. The standard work on the history of court tennis. The archive of the Oxford University Press reveals that in 1932 some 380 sets of the edition were pulped. The true limitation is therefore nearer to 420. Read More Item Details for A History of Tennis Add to Wish List
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Tennis
Item 317739Photograph of 4 women playing lawn tennis.
Price: $300
Boston: Hearn 392 Boylston Street and Old Orchard, Me, 1895. Signed and dated on back "1895 Frances E. Haynes." Frances Haynes was a student at Mt. Holyoke in 1895. Read More Item Details for Photograph of 4 women playing lawn tennis Add to Wish List
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Item 234113Tennis in Baltimore.
Price: $150
Baltimore: Dulany-Vernay Company, 1928. First edition. History of tennis in Baltimore from its beginnings in 1879. Read More Item Details for Tennis in Baltimore Add to Wish List
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Item 251732On Lawn Tennis.
Price: $275
London: Published by ‘Lawn Tennis’, Laurence Pountney Hill, Cannon Street, Etc, 1903. First edition. Substantial guide to play, with a chapter on Play and Players in America and a lengthy section listing lawn tennis champions, rules and regulations. Read More Item Details for On Lawn Tennis Add to Wish List
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Item 246350[The Earle Camp at Bullòn Woods] Photograph of tennis players (two ladies seated, two men standing) at ease near a....
Price: $750
[Pawtucket, R.I: A.F. Merry], 1885. A very early image of tennis in the United States, captured just four years after the first U.S. Natonal Men's Singles Championships (now the U.S. Open) was held in Newport, Rhode Island. The pastoral image is of unidentified members of the Earle party at Bullon..... Read More Item Details for [The Earle Camp at Bullòn Woods] Photograph of tennis players (two ladies seated, two men standing) at ease near a tent, the net just visible to the right Add to Wish List
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Item 365932Fifty Years of Lawn Tennis in the United States. Foreward by Julian S. Myrick.
Price: $200
New York: U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, 1931. First Edition, one of 3000. Read More Item Details for Fifty Years of Lawn Tennis in the United States. Foreward by Julian S. Myrick Add to Wish List
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The Origins of Modern Tennis and the USLTA
Item 249568The playing rules of lawn tennis as adopted by the United States National Lawn Tennis Association.
Price: $2,000
New York: Peck & Snyder, 1886. A fascinating glimpse into the early days of a a sport just getting organized in the United States, The United States National Lawn Tennis Association was founded in 1881 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City, by a group of young players..... Read More Item Details for The playing rules of lawn tennis as adopted by the United States National Lawn Tennis Association Add to Wish List
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Signed by Big Bill Tilden
Item 352539Match Play and the Spin of the Ball. Edited by Stephen Wallis Merrihew.
Price: $3,000
New York: American Lawn Tennis, 1925. No. 147 of 340 copies signed by the author and editor. A classic of American tennis. Read More Item Details for Match Play and the Spin of the Ball. Edited by Stephen Wallis Merrihew Add to Wish List
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From Prison to his “Only Family”
Item 40136Autograph Letter, signed (“Bill”), to Mrs. Marrion Anderson & her son Arthur (“Bratto”).
Price: $1,250
Saugus, Calif (“Barracks 19”): ca. 22 August 1949. A touching letter from the 56-year-old Tilden, the greatest tennis player of the first half of the twentieth century, then recently incarcerated for a second offense on charges of stemming from his homosexual encounters with young boys. Tilden writes from prison to..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“Bill”), to Mrs. Marrion Anderson & her son Arthur (“Bratto”) Add to Wish List
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Item 257477Portrait photograph of Althea Gibson.
Price: $1,000
New York: Nov 20, 1958. Fine image of the tennis champion who broke the color barrier in lawn tennis, and won both the U.S. National and Wimbledon championships in 1957 and '58; in both years she was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Althea Gibson Add to Wish List
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Item 245337Lawn Tennis...With a Chapter for Ladies by Mrs. Hillyard, Lady Champion, 1886, 1889, 1894.
Price: $250
London: George Bell & Sons, 1892. Third edition, with illustrations. Read More Item Details for Lawn Tennis...With a Chapter for Ladies by Mrs. Hillyard, Lady Champion, 1886, 1889, 1894 Add to Wish List
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Item 371976Tennis.
Price: $350
New York: Scribner's, 1928. First edition. Inscribed for an employee of Scribner’s: "For Edward Kizenberger Sincerely, Helen Wills." Miss Wills was the leading female contender in this field from 1927-1933 and in 1935. Read More Item Details for Tennis Add to Wish List
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