Tennis As I Play It (In Dustjacket)
by Maurice E. McLoughlin (Sinclair Lewis)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good -
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good -. A solid copy of the 1915 1st edition, IN THE VERY UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Ghostwritten, by all accounts, by a young Sinclair Lewis, who 15 years later would become the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Tight and VG+, with no writing or markings of any kind (foxing, etc.) to speak of. And in a bright, VG- (and yet still very presentable) example of the fragile dustjacket. The jacket shows a degree of chipping along the panel edges (resulting in just a touch of loss to the title at the spine crown and the publisher's address at the foot of the rear panel), a 3" chip in the center of the spine (roughly the size of a quarter and then running down a bit), inconspicuous staining and tape re-inforcing to the inside of the dustjacket and, finally, light staining --and a bit of creasing-- to the front panel. Thick octavo, illustrated with 72 crisp black-and-white photos, Introduction/Preface by R. Norris Williams, 2nd (the 1914 National Champion of the United States). Maurice McLoughlin (1890-1957) not only won the US Championships in 1912 and 1913 and earned the world #1 ranking in 1914, he was also the first men's player from the Western United States (Nevada) to become US Champion and the first US finalist at Wimbledon (where he lost to Anthony Wilding in 1913).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14401
- Title
- Tennis As I Play It (In Dustjacket)
- Author
- Maurice E. McLoughlin (Sinclair Lewis)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- rare tennis books, rare sports books, rare Sinclair Lewis
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports;
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
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- Crisp
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.