World Tennis - The World's Largest Tennis Magazine; Volume II, No.6, November, 1963 by Ashe, Arthur (Magazine Cover) - 1963

New York: American Lawn Tennis 1922, 2nd edition. (Hardcover) 399pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Gilt decorated green cloth. Top edge gilt, frontispiece with facsimile signatures of William T. Tilden, 2nd and Wm.W. Johnston, numerous illustrations and plates. The head and foot of the spine and corners are lightly worn. With Opinions on Disputed Points of Technique from Many Expert Players. Edited by S. Wallis Merrihew. (Sports, Lawn Tennis, Tennis).

Printed for F. Style. London.,1739. FIRST, AND ONLY, EDITION. 8vo. Front wrapper, ii,28pp. Lacking the half title but with the rare printed front wrapper (showing the price of Six Pence) laid down and bound in. Text complete. Top edge of pages have been cut and gilded, the others are untrimmed. Pages a bit marked and rubbed but overall a very good example. The original front wrapper has some small areas of loss to the edges and corners and has been professionally laid down. Bound in modern half red crushed morocco by C. Walters. Spine with raised bands, ruled in blind. Compartments lettered in gilt. Boards with dark red cloth. Burgundy endpapers. Previous owners bookplate (Douglas Peter Crossman, Earl Stonham) on front pastedown endpaper. Overall a very good copy of this uncommon political satire, mocking the supporters of George II and Prince James Stuart, the Old pretender. Not in Halkett & Laing.:

Australia, 1952. Card Menu (4 sides). Farewell Dinner to Members of the Rowing Section of the Australian Rowing Team at The Hermitage Sydney, Friday May 30, 1952. Given by Members of earlier Crews to have rowed at Henley on Thames. 27 handwritten signatures on Menu, including those of previous Australian Rowing crews. Menu also contains the signatures of 13 members of the Australian Olympic Rowing Team for the Helsinki Games. Notable signatures include Mervyn Wood, who was the flagbearer for Australia at the Games and who also won a Silver medal in the Mens Single Skulls Event. Also, signatures of David Anderson, Philip Cayzer, Ernest Chapman, Thomas Chessel, Mervyn Finlay, Robert Tinning and Geoffrey Williamson who were part of the Bronze medal winning Australian eights. Front of menu features handwritten name of W. J. Dixon (Bill) who was one of the hosts, having competed for Australia at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Card. Very… Read More

MACMILLAN NY, 1926. HBDJ, March 1926, 1st edition, 3rd printing. FAIR/VG , Initials front of corner DJ, Book Condition: FAIR. Jacket VG 12mo tall. Slanted spine, boards heavily rubbed with edgewear, spine titles not legible, boards have a few faint spots. Fingerprints and a few spots on FEP, some spotting in text, most pages have light crease at bottom corner. Front inside hinge is cracked but not separated, , otherwise pages and binding holding tight, ILLUSTRATED BLUE BOARDS RUBBED, 290 PGS ,whose well-to-do father Decrees that he shall go to the near-by public school instead of the Aristocractic private institution on which the boy?s heart had been set. Hardly less appealing as a character is Isadore Smolensky of the East Side, whose 1st encounter with the boy is of pugilistic nature, but who ultimaely becomes his warm friend, schoolboy Life of NYC. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Very Good. Illus. by Edward C. Caswell, .

Birmingham, AL: New Life Art. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 9780967596303 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edgewear; Signed and inscribed by Chris Fowler and Payne Stewart ; Color Illustrations; 200 pages .

New York: American Lawn Tennis 1922, 2nd edition. (Hardcover) 399pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Gilt decorated green cloth. Top edge gilt, frontispiece with facsimile signatures of William T. Tilden, 2nd and Wm.W. Johnston, numerous illustrations and plates. The head and foot of the spine and corners are lightly worn. With Opinions on Disputed Points of Technique from Many Expert Players. Edited by S. Wallis Merrihew. (Sports, Lawn Tennis, Tennis).

Printed for F. Style. London.,1739. FIRST, AND ONLY, EDITION. 8vo. Front wrapper, ii,28pp. Lacking the half title but with the rare printed front wrapper (showing the price of Six Pence) laid down and bound in. Text complete. Top edge of pages have been cut and gilded, the others are untrimmed. Pages a bit marked and rubbed but overall a very good example. The original front wrapper has some small areas of loss to the edges and corners and has been professionally laid down. Bound in modern half red crushed morocco by C. Walters. Spine with raised bands, ruled in blind. Compartments lettered in gilt. Boards with dark red cloth. Burgundy endpapers. Previous owners bookplate (Douglas Peter Crossman, Earl Stonham) on front pastedown endpaper. Overall a very good copy of this uncommon political satire, mocking the supporters of George II and Prince James Stuart, the Old pretender. Not in Halkett & Laing.:

Australia, 1952. Card Menu (4 sides). Farewell Dinner to Members of the Rowing Section of the Australian Rowing Team at The Hermitage Sydney, Friday May 30, 1952. Given by Members of earlier Crews to have rowed at Henley on Thames. 27 handwritten signatures on Menu, including those of previous Australian Rowing crews. Menu also contains the signatures of 13 members of the Australian Olympic Rowing Team for the Helsinki Games. Notable signatures include Mervyn Wood, who was the flagbearer for Australia at the Games and who also won a Silver medal in the Mens Single Skulls Event. Also, signatures of David Anderson, Philip Cayzer, Ernest Chapman, Thomas Chessel, Mervyn Finlay, Robert Tinning and Geoffrey Williamson who were part of the Bronze medal winning Australian eights. Front of menu features handwritten name of W. J. Dixon (Bill) who was one of the hosts, having competed for Australia at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Card. Very… Read More

MACMILLAN NY, 1926. HBDJ, March 1926, 1st edition, 3rd printing. FAIR/VG , Initials front of corner DJ, Book Condition: FAIR. Jacket VG 12mo tall. Slanted spine, boards heavily rubbed with edgewear, spine titles not legible, boards have a few faint spots. Fingerprints and a few spots on FEP, some spotting in text, most pages have light crease at bottom corner. Front inside hinge is cracked but not separated, , otherwise pages and binding holding tight, ILLUSTRATED BLUE BOARDS RUBBED, 290 PGS ,whose well-to-do father Decrees that he shall go to the near-by public school instead of the Aristocractic private institution on which the boy?s heart had been set. Hardly less appealing as a character is Isadore Smolensky of the East Side, whose 1st encounter with the boy is of pugilistic nature, but who ultimaely becomes his warm friend, schoolboy Life of NYC. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Very Good. Illus. by Edward C. Caswell, .

Birmingham, AL: New Life Art. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 9780967596303 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edgewear; Signed and inscribed by Chris Fowler and Payne Stewart ; Color Illustrations; 200 pages .