Match Play and the Spin of the Ball
by TILDEN, WILLIAM T. & MERRIHEW, STEPHEN WALLIS (Ed)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
American Lawn Tennis 1925. Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, author's signature in gilt to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxiv + 355pp, illus, VG- (heavy chipping & scuffing to spine extrems, 3cm closed tear to front hinge of board, light bruising & heavy scuffing to board corners, light scuffing & soiling to boards, boards quite shaky with heavy cracks to gutters, lacks fep, age appropriate tanning & foxing to pages)
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- Title
- Match Play and the Spin of the Ball
- Author
- TILDEN, WILLIAM T. & MERRIHEW, STEPHEN WALLIS (Ed)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- American Lawn Tennis 1925
- Keywords
- sport tennis illustrated history
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...