Sports Illustrated Tennis
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, (1972). Softcover. Revised edition. Third printing. Trade paperback. 96pp. Wrappers creased and stained, two price stickers on front wrap, thus good only. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, (1972). Softcover. Revised edition. Third printing. Trade paperback. 96pp. Wrappers creased and stained, two price stickers on front wrap, thus good only. More
Germany: [circa 1890]. Hardcover. A combined photo album and music box designed by W.H.S. Thompson and H. Bunnett and made in Germany, featuring chromolithographic sporting scenes and a fully functioning comb and cylinder musical movement device mounted inside the album behind a glass door. Thick quarto. Bound in padded leather..... More
Unbound. Portrait photograph. 8" x 10". Fine. Small embossed stamp, and rubberstamp on rear, of photographer G. Maillard Kesslere. A formal portrait of Tilden, taken during his short acting career. According to a pencil note on the verso, this photograph was taken for the play *Dracula* in which Tilden played..... More
New York: Hellman, Williams & Company, 1948. Hardcover. First edition. Rubbing and small splash marks on the spine, a very good copy in slightly spine-faded, very good or better dustwrapper with rubbing and light wear at the extremities. An uncommon first edition. More
[Philadelphia]: Kuebler, 1901. Unbound. Oval gold-toned platinum print of the future tennis champion, then eight year old Bill Tilden with his mother. Image size 3.5" x 5" at widest points, on a larger card mount. Some light rubbing on the image, very good or better. Signed by the photographer in..... More
New York: Hellman, Williams & Company, 1948. Hardcover. First edition (stated "First Pre-Publication Printing"). Front bottom corner bumped, and a little spotting on the front board, a sound, very good plus copy lacking the dustwrapper. An uncommon first edition. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 468pp. Owner's gift inscription on front pastedown, dampstain on bottom page corners, spine a bit cocked, thus very good minus, lacking the dustwrapper. More
Chicago: Triumph Books, (1993). Softcover. First edition. Trade paperback. 256pp. Corners slightly flared, else very good or better. More
New York: Mayflower Books, Inc., (1978). Hardcover. First American edition. Fine with light tape residue on the front fly in near fine dustwrapper. More
(New York): St. Martin's Press, 1981. Hardcover. First edition. Very good, book has slight rubbing of spine and corners of cover, nice, clean copy. More
(New York): HarperCollins, (2001). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper. More
New York: Harper and Row, (1971). Hardcover. Reprint. Slightly wrinking to the endpapers else fine in near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Joe DiMaggio: "to Joe DiMaggio, with warm admiration. May you claim and share God's great Love and Joy! Eleanor Searle Whitney. Psalm 100 John 15:11." With..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1913). Hardcover. Sixth printing, a year after the first. Small octavo. 273, [3]pp. Illustrated with plates. Blue cloth gilt. One plate was detached (now re-inserted) and has a few marginal tears, a little foxing on first and last couple of leaves, very good or better..... More
No. Hollywood, California: Wilshire Book Company, 1976. Softcover. Reprint. Near fine in wrappers with a price sticker on the inside front wrapper. More