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Helen Wills. Tennis. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edition. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Age toning & foxing to title page. Titles show mottling & minor wear to board edges, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Wills, Helen. Tennis. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1928.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Instruction book by perhaps the greatest women's tennis player in history. With illustrations by the author. Ex-library with spine markings and internal indications. Bumped and rubbed, boards a bit soiled. Front hinge cracked, rear a bit loose.
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
Wills, Helen. Tennis. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 214 pp. Green publisher's cloth in clipped pictorial dust jacket. Chipping to dj edges, heaviest at corners and spine ends. Light rubbing to cloth. Musings on tennis, illustrated by the author.
Seller: Small Volume Books, Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Wills, Helen. Tennis. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The finest female player of her era on her game, with her own illustrations. Large 8vo. 124pp. Very good in dust jacket which is worn at margins and missing portions at head and foot of spine. From our large stock of tennis books and publications.
Seller: Pastsport, London, United Kingdom
Helen Wills. Tennis. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York and London, 1928.
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: American tennis star Helen Willis's celebration of her sport, featuring the author's own illustrations. The first edition, as identified by the presence of the publisher's crest to the colophon. The Scribner's 'A' to identify first printings was not used prior to 1930.Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates by Willis, and with further vignette illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.Published when Willis was only twenty-three.Willis was the first American woman athlete to become a global celebrity, and had a 180-match win streak from 1927 until 1933. Her record of eight wins at Wimbledon was not surpassed until 1990 when Martina Navratilova won her ninth.With the former owner's inscription of Mary Burnett to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine tail, with discolouration to back strip. Boards bright. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with page perimeters lightly age toned, and the odd light handling mark. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Helen WILLS. TENNIS. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1928.
Price: US$91.59 + shipping
Description: Helen Newington Wills Roark (1905-98) won 31 Grand Slam titles including seven US Open singles titles and eight Wimbledon singles titles during the 1920s and 30s. She typically wore a white sailor suit with a pleated knee-length skirt, white shoes, and a white visor. First Edition. 8vo. x + 214pp. Photographic frontis., 22 illustations, 11 plates. Binding is a little weak with gutter exposed between frontispiece and tite-page. Dust-wrapper, very good.
Seller: Sportspages, Farnham, United Kingdom
Wills, Helen:. Tennis. London, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.
Price: US$131.68 + shipping
Description: 214 Seiten Rares Buch mit beschabtem und lagerspurigem Einband sowie altersgemäss gebräunten Seiten. Ohne SU. Angefranste Kapitale. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 632
Seller: PlanetderBuecher, Hamburg, Germany
Wills, Helen. TENNIS - Signed - 1st Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, London, 1928.
Price: US$1399.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British issue printed in the United States, the Scribner's "A" was not used in their books until 1930, hence no "A", just the date and the seal were on the first editions before then. This is the TRUE FIRST EDITION. Inscribed by the author "Cordially Yours Helen Willis", 214pp., illustrated by the author, bound in light green cloth lettered in blue, tiny speck of soiling to rear board otherwise near fine in pictorial dust jacket showing light wear around the edges. Wills was considered one of the greatest female tennis players of all time.
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.