Ending Aug 15, 2023 11:34 EST

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

 
  Lot 95
 

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[TENNIS] Four antiquarian books about Tennis.

Estate / Collection: The Property of a New England Family

[TENNIS]
Four antiquarian books about Tennis.
Comprising: BELDMAN, GEORGE W. and VAILE, P.A. Great Lawn Tennis Players. Their Methods Illustrated. London: MacMillan, 1905. First edition. Publisher's cloth. Plates after photographs. Hinges cracked, worst at rear, with the signature at front of Scottish tennis player and author A. Wallace MacGregor (author of Fifty years of lawn tennis in Scotland); TILDEN, WILLIAM T. Match Play and the Spin of the Ball. New York: American Lawn Tennis, 1925. First edition. Cloth in original dust jacket. Plates from photographs. Losses to jacket corners affecting some text, otherwise a fine copy; DE LUZE, ALBERT. The Royal Game of Tennis. London: Roundwood Press for the Tennis and rackets Association of London, [1979]. Copy 113 of 500, signed by the translator Richard Hamilton. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket and slipcase. Wear to jacket extremities, else fine; Fifty Years of Lawn Tennis in the United States New York: NYLTA, 1931. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket and glassine. Fine. An interesting illustrated group. Not fully collated and sold as is.

Sold for $252
Estimated at $300 - $500

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Estate / Collection: The Property of a New England Family

[TENNIS]
Four antiquarian books about Tennis.
Comprising: BELDMAN, GEORGE W. and VAILE, P.A. Great Lawn Tennis Players. Their Methods Illustrated. London: MacMillan, 1905. First edition. Publisher's cloth. Plates after photographs. Hinges cracked, worst at rear, with the signature at front of Scottish tennis player and author A. Wallace MacGregor (author of Fifty years of lawn tennis in Scotland); TILDEN, WILLIAM T. Match Play and the Spin of the Ball. New York: American Lawn Tennis, 1925. First edition. Cloth in original dust jacket. Plates from photographs. Losses to jacket corners affecting some text, otherwise a fine copy; DE LUZE, ALBERT. The Royal Game of Tennis. London: Roundwood Press for the Tennis and rackets Association of London, [1979]. Copy 113 of 500, signed by the translator Richard Hamilton. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket and slipcase. Wear to jacket extremities, else fine; Fifty Years of Lawn Tennis in the United States New York: NYLTA, 1931. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket and glassine. Fine. An interesting illustrated group. Not fully collated and sold as is.

Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, ending Aug 15, 2023

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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on August 15, 2023. Offered was a summer miscellany of sporting material, Americana, fine bindings, literature, autographs, maps and more!
 

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