Lacoste On Tennis
by Lacoste, Jean René
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good(+) copy. No jacket. Not ex-library. Wear to edges and corners of boards with some light soiling; slightly cocked copy
- Seller
-
Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very good(+) copy. No jacket. Not ex-library. Wear to edges and corners of boards with some light soiling; slightly cocked copy though binding is tight and very much in tact; lightly sunned pages are clean and free of marks and creases; a gently loved copy.. Octavo in green cloth boards; 263 p., frontispiece, plates, portraits, b/w illus. 21 cm. In English. || With an introduction by William T. Tilden, 2nd; contains the official rules of the United States Lawn Tennis Association.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84358
- Title
- Lacoste On Tennis
- Author
- Lacoste, Jean René
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good(+) copy. No jacket. Not ex-library. Wear to edges and corners of boards with some light soiling; slightly cocked copy
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Tennis
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports and Recreation;
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About the Seller
Bibliope by Calvello Books
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Oakland, California
About Bibliope by Calvello Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
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