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Price: US$51.53 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Lacks dustwrappper, boards are rubbed to edges especially top and bottom of spine. Spine is somewhat darkened, titles are a little faded. Gilt cover decorartion is still in good order. No inscriptions, illustrated, all plates present, some are slightly spotted. Text is in very good order with little wear. No loose pages, hinges tight, slight spine lean. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.
Seller: Red-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. ), Hanley Swan, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 403 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with many black & white photographs. Slight gap between pages 160-161. Fraying, areas of wear to cloth at top and bottom of spine, hinge cloth exposed in 2 spots on covers - approximately 2" in each case. A good reference copy. Record # 611617
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Beldam, George W.. Great Lawn Tennis Players Their methods Illustrated. Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1905.
Price: US$75.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A superb copy in original binding with firm hinges & no owner marks in text. NOT ex-library. Cover has some wear at top & bottom of spine and at outer corners. Frontispiece tissue guard present. Dark green binding with gold lettering on spine which is readable and gold device of tennis player on front. Overall a very nice copy of this scarce title. sports
Seller: Booketeria Inc., San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, FRONTIS + NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 24 + 403 PAGES. SOME DISCOLOURING TO CLOTH AT BOTTOM OF SPINE { SEE IMAGE] COUPLE OF CORNERS BUMPED, INSCRIPTION TO FRONT ENDPAPER, ENDPAPERS LIGHTLY FOXED, SOME VERY OCCASIONAL SEPARATION TO INNER PAGE MARGINS BUT ALL PAGES ARE WELL ATTACHED. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY WITH BOARDS FIRMLY ATTACHED & CLEAN INTERNALLY. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
George W Beldam and P A Vaile. Great Lawn Tennis Players. MacMillan & Co Ltd, London, 1905.
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book in clean, fresh green buckram covers with bright gilt titles to a slightly canted spine and very bright gilt vignette of a tennis player to front; tiny nick to spine top. Internally very good indeed and free of inscriptions; profusely illustrated by 229 action -photographs and with a frontispiece photograph of H L Doherty protected by a tissue guard; no foxing except to the two blank feps; binding tight. A most attractive copy of a very scarce first edition book.
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Illus. xxxii, 404pp. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth. Very Good
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
BELDAM,GEORGE W.;VAILE,P.A.. Great Lawn Tennis Players. macmillan london 1905, 1905.
Price: US$208.62 + shipping
Description: first edition inscribed by one author [p.a.vaile] 403pp ills.[b/w] VG- (green cloth w.gilt tennis player stamp to top board,mod.rubbed and soiled,chipping and wear to extrems.,both hinges split almost completely,boards shaky w.paper separation to ep gutters,owner's inscr.to ffep and half-title,author's warm inscr.to ffep verso - dated 3.3.05,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed,spine cracked and shaky) inscribed by p.a.vaile
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$216.69 + shipping
Description: xxix[i], [ii], 403[1] pp, profusely illustrated with 229 action-photographs. Recent maroon 1/4 calf with matching cloth sides, black calf gilt spine label, raised bands, speckled leaf edges, new endpapers. 22.5 cm x 16 cm. Repair to upper margin of page 321/322 and the final leaf not affecting the text, faint marginal age browning to contents.
Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom
George W Beldam, P A Vaile. Great Lawn Tennis Players. Macmillan and Co, London, 1905.
Price: US$328.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green boards. Mark to head of front board. Spine is tight. Bumping to corners. Some ink dotting to rear board. Scuffing to head and tail of spine. Internally, Library stamp to front board, SIGNED by AUTHOR, Beldam. Clean and bright throughout. All images clean. A very nice copy.
Seller: William Collins Rare and Collectable Books, Grimsby, United Kingdom