Tennis as I Play It by Maurice E. McLoughlin (Sinclair Lewis) - 1915

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, green cloth boards with gilt on front and spine. Spine is darkened and sunned and boards show handling wear and darkening of the edges. Front hinge is cracked and front end page has previous owner's name and info. Small stain in the upper right corner from where a price sticker once was. The remaining pages are toned due to age but clean. Some foxing is present. First edition thus.

New York. George H. Doran Co. Hardcover. 1915. 8vo. 23.5cm, 347p., with 72 plates and photos illustrations including frontis portrait, green cloth, gilt titles, some wear on the edges and some slight wrinkling along the top text margin, a good sound working copy (spg). ~ A method based on years of practice and tournament play by the famed American tennis player, National Singles Champion 1912,1913. With a preface by Richard Norris Williams, National Champion of the United States, 1914.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. Hard Cover. Ex Lib. 5.5"x8". 347 pages. Ghost written by Sinclair Lewis. Illustrated w/ 72 reproductions of photos in action. Sticker on spine, card slot in rear, light soil and wear.. Ex-Library. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Photo Illusrated.

New York. GeorgeH. Doran Co. Hardcover. 1915. 8vo. 23.5cm, 347p., with 72 plates and photosillustrations including frontis portrait, green cloth, gilt titles,wanting front free fly else a very good to fine copy (S3.7) A methodbased on years of practice and tournament play by the famed Americantennis player, National Singles Champion 1912,1913. With a preface byRichard Norris Williams, National Champion of the United States, 1914.

Doran:, 1915. 347 pages, with 72 b&w photographs, Preface by Richard Norris Williams, 2nd. "What please me so much in M.E. McLoughlin's book on tennis is that he shows the rader what he himself does, not only what ought to be done. His ideas of tennis is based not on the theory; do what is natural, what is born in you." GOOD HARDCOVER, green cloth covers, lettering is bright on the spine and cover. Back cover of book is discolored, with a spot on the front cover also. Some wear is present to the spine edges and covers of book. Internally a nice clean copy.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket Present.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

George H. Doran Company, 1915. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. George H. Doran Company; New York, 1915. Hardcover. A Good, green cloth binding with black lettering on front board and spine, sunning to spine and board margins, binding intact, moisture stain bottom front board and bottom rear board corner, soiled line along rear board buckram, rub mark bottom text block corner, scattered foxing to text block edges and front/back matters, age toning to pages, tear bottom front free endpaper near fore-edge is clear taped also on verso, spine lean, spine buckram starting to separate from backing material, sunning to page margins, small moisture stain bottom text block corner, without Dust wrapper. A good, overall clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 347pp., b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.

New York: George H. Doran. 1915. No printing history or colophon; Very good+; Hinge cracks, some silverfish flecks, still firm & attractive; Ghost-written by Sinclair Lewis. .

New York: Doran, 1915. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition (1915). Green cloth binding, gilt titles. 8vo. Illustrated with seventy-two reproduction photographs in action (black and white), including frontispiece portrait of McLoughlin, the 1913-14 National Champion. 347 pp. Sinclair Lewis was the ghost writer for the book, which pre-dated Main Street by some five years. A heavy book, this has rubbing (but not damage) along top and bottom of spine; rear hinge just starting. Unusually clean internals. Near fine..

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First Edition, second-state binding. VG in VG- jacket. Exceptionally rare in dustjacket. DJ has a single shallow chip off the spine crown cutting off about 1/3 of the word Tennis. Period bookseller price tag ($2.50) on the spine. Minor soiling, and a few closed tears. These defects noted, the jacket is still attractive in the mylar sleeve. The book itself has a neat POS on the title page, otherwise completely free of markings, pages very clean and bright, no foxing. Endpapers foxing and some spotting to top edge and front paper edge, bottom edge clean. Cloth boards have virtually no wear and are bright and clean, sharp cloth corners. Preface by Richard Norris Williams. Illustrated from photographs. 9x6, gilt-lettered green cloth. Ghost-written by Sinclair Lewis when he was a struggling writer, about 5 years before Main Street was published. Lewis was working for George… Read More

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… Read More