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LE TENNIS: CALENDRIER 1927

LE TENNIS: CALENDRIER 1927

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A beautifully produced French language volume of the rules of lawn tennis along with the tennis calendar for 1927.

Paperback, 1st edition. Large 8vo. 42pp. on thick cream stock. duotone text decoration and illustrations. Plus folt out glossy captioned photographic supplement detailing the principle tennish shots and 7 glossy full colour advertisment style plates for dunlop equipment laid in. A real treasure trove of inter-war tennis ephemera. Internally very good, clean and bright cut pages. Minor spotting to prelims. In the original gilt debossed and duotone decorated thick card wraps with a thick plaited cord holding the volume together. Corners fractionally bumped and minor edgewear else very good.

Date
1927
Publisher
Dunlop, Paris
Author
none

£75.00 (Code: 7176)

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