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MODERN TENNIS: ILLUSTRATED BY EXPLANATORY DIAGRAMS AND ACTION-PHOTOGRAPHS

MODERN TENNIS: ILLUSTRATED BY EXPLANATORY DIAGRAMS AND ACTION-PHOTOGRAPHS

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Classic tennis instruction book. The second revised American edition.

8vo. 317pp. Frontispiece + 47 full-page illustrations, in effect "action-photographs" taken by the great British sports photographer G.W.Beldam, 34 diagrams. Original green cloth. Contained within the original, extremely rare dust-wrapper, which is lightly rubbed to edges with some loss to head and tail of spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. A very good copy.

Date
1917
Publisher
New York / London, Funk & Wagnalls
Author
Pembroke Arnold VAILE

£160.00 (Code: 60772)

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