[No place]: Thing's Famous Stores, [circa 1910]. Unbound. Pictorial broadside. 11" x 14" Printed in blue ink on thin white cards stock with a machine-made punch hole in upper margin. About fine. Image of a determined-looking leaping tennis player slashing a forehand shot with a large pair of "outing shoes"..... More

London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [circa 1884]. Hardcover. First edition. Thick octavo. 760pp. Copiously illustrated. Chromolithograph frontispiece. Elaborately decorated green and red beveled cloth decorated in black and gilt. Owner name dated in 1886, cloth worn mostly near the lower extremities, very good or better. Includes rules, explanations, and..... More

[New York]: United States Lawn Tennis Association, circa 1950s. Softcover. 6"x3.5". [14pp]. Stapled wrappers. Some wrinkling, near fine. Instruction plus advertisements from Ashaway Products. Not dated, but best guess is late 1950s. More

[Central New Jersey]: 1912-1914. Unbound. Photo album. Oblong octavo. Thick card leaves with inset grommets intended for string binding, now disbound. Contains 33 mounted gelatin silver images, mostly around 2.75" x 4.5" with several of the images either a little larger or smaller. Some of the margins of the thick..... More

Winter Park, Florida and others: 1941. Hardcover. Oblong quarto measuring roughly 12 x 7.” String-tied boards embossed in blind and title "Photographs" in gilt on the front board. Contains 119 gelatin silver photographs. Various sizes, probably the majority are 2" x 2.75" with the rest mostly larger. Corners of the..... More

Cincinnati: Goldsmith Guaranteed Athletic Goods, 1922. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 52pp. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Very faint evidence of dampening at bottom of front wrap, else a nice near fine example. A bit more than half of the catalog is devoted to baseball, with sections of men's and women's bathing..... More

New York: NAL, (1981). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a single tiny tear. Autobiography of the tennis great and sports historian. More

Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., (1922). Hardcover. First American edition. Twenty-four illustrations from photographs by E.H.D. Sewell. Fine in a price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with a chip at the crown and top of the front panel. A handsome copy of this tennis how-to. Scarce in jacket. More

New York: Doubleday, 1990. Hardcover. First edition. xvii, 394pp. Binding slightly cocked, page edges faintly foxed, about near fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a bit of wear, faint toning on the flaps. More

[Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth], 1922. Hardcover. Broadside, hand-lettered in red and black. Measuring approximately 8¾" x 13". Shrink-wrapped onto foam core. Small chip on one corner from being posted, small paper repairs on rear, still very good or better. An appealing hand-lettered broadside from Dartmouth, announcing a campus tournament to..... More

New York: The Dial Press, (1971). Softcover. Second printing. Preface by Arthur Ashe. Quarto pictorial wrappers. 294pp. Light foxing and age-toning on page edges, wrappers lightly rubbed and curled on edges, very good. More

Philadelphia and NY: J.B. Lippincott, (1955). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 192pp. Small bookstore stamp on the front pastedown, else just about fine in price-clipped, near fine dust jacket with tiny tears at the crown. Autobiography for young adults by a mid-century tennis star. More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1936. Hardcover. First edition. Thirty-two illustrations in aquatone. Contemporary owner's name on front fly, spine a bit cocked, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Memoir of the reigning women's tennis champion of the time, in much better than usual condition. More