Search Results: Tennis from Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Chicago: Bonus Books, Inc, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Slightly cocked else fine in fine dustwrapper.

Mankato, Minnesota: Amecus Street, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by harold Henriksen. Near fine in pictorial boards, with minor scuffing and rubbing to the corners, and an auction stamp on the front pastedown.

New York: Archway Paperback / Pocket Books, 1973. Softcover. Very Good. Later printing. Mass market paperback. Owner's name stamped on a few pages, else very good.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with minor tear and wear.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Thirty-two illustrations in aquatone. Contemporary owner's name on front fly, spine a bit cocked, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Memoir of the reigning women's tennis champion of the time, in much better than usual condition.

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First edition. 208pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Foxing on page edges, spine cocked, very good in a fine dustwrapper.

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 208pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Light grease pencil across front fly, page edges foxed, corners lightly bumped, very good in a very good dustwrapper with closed short tears on edges, spine sunned.

New York: Atheneum, 1986. Softcover. Fine/Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Author's name written on bottom edge in ink. Faint label shadow on front cover else fine in a very good or better proof jacket with modest creasing along the topedge. A tennis novel.

(London): Octopus, 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. Soft cover edition. Quarto. Illustrated wrappers. A bit of sunning at the spine, else near fine.

New York: Villard, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with faint creases. A thriller that goes behind the scenes in the tennis world from the champion player. A Jordan Myles mystery.

[No place]: Thing's Famous Stores, 1910. Unbound. Near Fine. Pictorial broadside. 11" x 14" Printed in blue ink on thin white cards stock with a machine-made punch hole in upper margin. About fine. Image of a determined-looking leaping tennis player slashing a forehand shot with a large pair of "outing shoes" in the foreground. We could not find anything on Thing's Store but provenance suggests it was from Nebraska or the surrounding states. Handsome image.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. Owner's neat name and modest foxing, both on the front fly, else near fine in moderately worn about very good dustwrapper. Novel about a young American woman who joins the Waves, by a championship tennis player (and Wave).

Huntingdon, Pa: Kline, 1885. Unbound. Near Fine. Albumen photograph. Image size 4" x 6" on 4" x 6.75" thick card with photographers printed mark below the image and on the verso. Faint crease else near fine. Image of two men and two women in tennis clothing and bearing tennis wrappers. Ink notes identifying players by first names and dated in June 1885.

[Philadelphia]: Kuebler, 1901. Unbound. Very Good. Oval gold-toned platinum print of the future tennis champion, then eight year old Bill Tilden with his mother. Image size 3.5" x 5" at widest points, on a larger card mount. Some light rubbing on the image, very good or better. Signed by the photographer in lower right margin beneath the image (Kuebler"). Captioned on the verso in pencil in a contemporary but unknown hand (the first word eroded): "[Selina] Tilden & Jr. 1901." Tilden was born into a wealthy family and lived in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. The Kuebler brothers were prominent Philadelphia portrait photographers. Tilden lost both of his parents at a relatively young age, a loss he combatted by devoting himself to tennis, becoming for many years the consensus best tennis player in the world. Largely rejected by his father, he later engaged in several relationships with younger men, that resulted in scandal and some jail time.

New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

New York: Mayflower Books, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 278pp. Small stain on rear fly, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, near fine in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper with spine and edges sunned.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 203pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Corners lightly bumped, near fine in a very good lightly rubbed dustwrapper with short tears on edges.

New York: Mayflower Books, Inc, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine with light tape residue on the front fly in near fine dustwrapper.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. xiii, 255pp. Illustrated from black-and-white photographs. A small dampstain to the fore edge affecting the margins of the last 50 pages, else very good or better in a very good dust jacket with a crease to the bottom of the front panel and sunning to the spine. The Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion tells of her time as a spy for the U.S. Army Intelligence during World War II.

South Brunswick & NY: A.S. Barnes, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Boards waterstained, thus very good in a very good rubbed dustwrapper with a short tear along one fold.