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SUCCESS AT TABLE TENNIS

SUCCESS AT TABLE TENNIS

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Includes history of the game, techniques and rules. Kelen is particularly opinionated about the new tactic of "stone-walling", which was threatening to ruin the game. Translated from the Hungarian by George Winkler. Kelen was a famous Hungarian table tennis champion.

8vo. 119pp. Frontispiece of the author. Gift inscription to front endpaper. Dust-wrapper, price-clipped, foxed and chipped to head of spine - but still very good. The book is foxed throughout, most heavily to endpapers. A good copy of a rare book.

Date
1936
Publisher
Frederick Warne
Author
Istvan KELEN

£45.00 (Code: 40096)

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