Tennis: Origins and Mysteries -- With an Historical Bibliography
- Boards
- New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932. Boards. Very Good +. The 1932 1st edition. Limited to 450 copies, "printed upon Van Gelder hand-made paper, designed by William Dana Orcutt". Solid and VG+, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and lightly-rubbedc paper title label affixed to the spine. One severe example of offsetting (at pg. 59), where a newspaper article had been laid-in. Otherwise, very clean internally. Octavo, gilt top-edge, deckled fore and bottom-edges. With an Historical Bibliography by Robert W. Henderson. ALSO INCLUDES DERRYDALE'S UNCOMMON ORIGINAL 8-PG ANNOUNCEMENT BOOKLET AND ORDER FORM, which have been laid-into this copy.