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Price: US$34.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 347 pages; Publisher's green cloth with title lettering in darker green. Illustrated with 72 photographs "in action." Hinges tender; rear endpaper split. Cloth a little mottled. Moderate to heavy foxing to the first several pages, but only superficially in the body of the book. Binding shaken; several signatures are starting. A reading copy. Good only. Ghost written by Sinclair Lewis
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
mcLoughlin, Maurice E.. TENNIS AS I PLAY IT. George H. Doran Company, New York, 1915.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Popeks Used and Rare Books, IOBA, Oneonta, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 6 1/4 inches x 9 1/4 in., 347 pp., illustrated with reproductions of historical black & white photographs. Dark green, textured cloth, with titling gilt on the spine and front cover. Wear to spine ends, both inner hinges are split, age-related tanning to endpapers, page edges. Interior pages and plates are generally clean, the inner hinges require repair. Weight: 3 lbs.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
MCLOUGHLIN,MAURICE E.. Tennis as I play it. george h.doran new york [1915], 1915.
Price: US$52.16 + shipping
Description: [first edition] 347pp ills.[b/w] VG (green cloth,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,sl.browned spine,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,boards shaky w.paper separation at fep gutter,prelims.and edges sl.soiled,some sl.foxing to contents,spine cracked w.separation starting at some sections,shaky spine) ghost-written by sinclair lewis
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
[LEWIS, Sinclair] McLOUGHLIN, Maurice E.. Tennis As I Play It.. George H. Doran, New York, 1915.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: 347 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Tall 8vo, publisher's green cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Near fine with some very slight rubbing to the extremities of the spine. A much nicer copy than usually found. This book is said to have been ghostwritten by Sinclair Lewis.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
McLoughlin, Maurice E. (Sinclair Lewis). Tennis as I Play It. George H. Doran, New York, 1915.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 347 pages. First edition, later state with black lettering on book. Ghost written by Sinclair Lewis. A primer by this American tennis player who was National Singles Champion 1912 & 1913. Preface by Richard Norris Williams who was National Champion in 1914. Many instructional photographs. Very good+ book with slight edge wear and some edge fading to the green cloth. No dust jacket. A very nice copy with rare information about the role of Sinclair Lewis in writing this book.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Gilt lettered and decorated green cloth cover and spine. No printing history or colophon. Preface written by Richard Norris Williams, National Champion of the United States, 1914. Illustrated with 72 reproductions of photographs in action. This book was ghost-written by Sinclair Lewis! No jacket. Front hinge repaired else a bright and clean example. Long gift inscription to the front blank end paper. A vintage presentation card SIGNED by Maurice McLoughlin has been glued to the front end paper! ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: [First edition]. "Preface by Richard Norris Williams . Illustrated with Seventy-two Reproductions of Photographs in Action." Publisher's textured green cloth, brightly lettered in gilt; with covers now lightly speckled, especially at lower front (from poorly dyed cloth?); spine corners a touch rubbed. First and final leaves faintly foxed; text otherwise excellent, clean and tight. Because of the speckling, a very good copy of this instructional work, ghost-written by Sinclair Lewis.
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
McLoughlin, Maurice E.. Tennis as I Play It. George H. Doran, New York, 1915.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: No printing history or colophon; Very good+; Hinge cracks, some silverfish flecks, still firm & attractive; Ghost-written by Sinclair Lewis.
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Ediyion. Original green cloth, no writing, no bookplates, a little dusty, else very good plus. Illustrated with 72 photographs. Ghost written by Sinclair Lewis. Very scarce.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: [First edition]. "Preface by Richard Norris Williams . Illustrated with Seventy-two Reproductions of Photographs in Action." Publisher's textured green cloth, brightly lettered in gilt; spine corners a touch rubbed, faint semi-circular mark on front. Contemporary ownership inscription on front endpaper; text excellent; printed on heavy quality semi-gloss paper, this book is often found in poor condition. A fine copy of this instructional work, ghost-written by Sinclair Lewis. (NB - Letters by Lewis owned by the Port Washington [NY] Public Library confirm his authorship of this book.).
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue of a book ghostwritten by Sinclair Lewis. Accompanying the book is documentation about LewisÕ authorship. Very slight cocking, else a fine clean copy with the gilt-stamping unusually bright and gleaming. Illustrated with photographs. Very scarce in this condition.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
McLoughlin, Maurice E. (Sinclair Lewis). Tennis as I Play It. George H. Doran, New York, 1915.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 347 pages. First edition, first printing. Ghost written by Sinclair Lewis. A primer by this American tennis player who was National Singles Champion 1912 & 1913. Preface by Richard Norris Williams who was National Champion in 1914. Many instructional photographs. Laid in are a correspondence between Alf Stavig and James Lorson, a book dealer in Fullerton, California. Stavig relates in a formal memo dated 1986, his relationship to McLoughlin. Stavig writes of his meeting McLoughlin and how McLoughlin related to him how Lewis came to ghost write this book. There is also a letter from McLoughlin dated 1951, signed by him. Near fine book with a touch of edge wear. No dust jacket. A very nice copy with rare information about the role of Sinclair Lewis in writing this book.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$680.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 Doran at the time.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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).
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.