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DISTURB'D WITH CHACES - TENNIS COURTS, CELEBRITIES AND SCANDALS OF YESTERYEAR

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A large collection of extraordinary tennis stories, many previously unpublished, from across the centuries up to the early 1900s nicely illustrated throughout with photographic and archival illustrations.

4to. 240pp. Dust-wrapper. Gilt edges. Very good condition. No.35 in a limited edition of 50 copies, nicely signed by both authors to subscription page.

 

 

Date
2009
Publisher
Oxford: Ronaldson Publications
Author
David BEST and Brian RICH

£95.00 (Code: 98857)

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