Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xiv, 484 pages, b/w illustrations. Front hinge a little weak, otherwise very good.
Seller: Tinakori Books, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Price: US$33.06 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges worn. Hinges starting. Text remains clear without blemish. Previous owner's inscription and St. Luke's College Exeter Library stamp. Physical description: xiv, 484 pages, diagrams 12 plates (including frontispiece): including illustrations, plans; 19 cm.Subjects: Tennis. Rackets (Game). Badminton. 19th century gaming. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$42.98 + shipping
Description: With numerous illustrations by Lucien Davis and from photographs. Alles zu Geschichte, Training und Organisation von Tennis und Lawn-Tennis. Wobei auch die führenden Spieler der Zeit gewürdigt werden. Rackets wurde 1908 bei den Olympischen Spielen in London gespielt. Es ist ein Vorläufer von Squash, Fives ist eine Art Squash, wobei der Rückschlag aber mit der Hand erfolgt. Alles schön illustriert. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 860 Illustr. Ln. Nur ganz leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Gutes Exemplar. (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes).
Seller: Antiquariat Ursula Hartmann, Korntal-Münchingen, Germany
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges worn. Hinges starting. Text remains clear without blemish. Previous owner's inscription and St. Luke's College Exeter Library stamp. Physical description: xiv, 484 pages, diagrams 12 plates (including frontispiece): including illustrations, plans; 19 cm.Subjects: Tennis. Rackets (Game). Badminton. 19th century gaming. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1890, 1st edition. Octavo. xiv 484pp. Illustrated. Original brown decorative cloth. Extremities a little rubbed, Former owner's bookplate to f.e.p. Contents otherwise in good clean order. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Brown cloth boards with illustration. 484 pages including illustrations, plans, diagrams 12 plates (including frontispiece). by J.M. Heathcote, with contributions by the Hon. A. Lyttelton and W.C. Marshall; Lawn tennis, by C.G. Heathcote, with contributions by Miss. L. Dod, H.W.W. Wilberforce, H.F. Lawford, Spencer W. Gore, R.D. Sears and Herbert Chipp; Rackets, by E.O.P. Bouverie; Fives, by A.C. Ainger. With numerous illustrations by Lucien Davies, C.M. Newton, and from photographs. VG Cover has general wear, Damage to top and bottom of spine. Bookblock has age toning and darkening. Interior pages have age toning. Interior binding loose.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. xiv, 491, (4) pp. Original publisher's decorated brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, and decorated endpapers. History of and guide to 4 racquet sports - tennis (both 'real' and lawn), rackets, and fives; plates, diagrams and in-text illustrations throughout by G. Pearson and J. D. Cooper from photographs. Publisher's catalogue at rear. Rubbing to spine and corners. Foxing throughout. 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$110.21 + shipping
Description: XIV, 484 S. Mit 12 Tafn. u. zahlr. Abb., tls. Holzstiche. Illustr. Original-Leinenband The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. - Gelenke und Bindung gelockert. Name von alter Hand auf Reihentitel. Durchgehend etwas stockfleckig. Gewicht (Gramm): 858
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition copy of this charming and copiously illustrated work on tennis and other racket sports, from the renowned 'The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes' series. The Badminton Library, originally published in twenty-eight volumes between 1885 and 1896, was a sporting and publishing project conceived and founded by Henry Somerset 8th Duke of Beaufort. It developed into a series of sporting books which aimed to cover all major sports and pastimes, with each volume written by experts who were authorities in their fields. This a deluxe edition copy of this first edition work; in a half crushed morocco binding with bright orange boards, and a gilt coat of arms to the front board and gilded top page edges. Copiously illustrated throughout with in-text woodcut illustrations and twelve black and white plates. In the publisher's original half crushed morocco binding, with orange cloth over boards. Externally very smart, with slight rubbing to extremities. Rubbing and slight fading to spine, as expected with this colour binding. Internally firmly bound. Pages slightly age toned to extremities but bright, with scattered spots to fore edge of pages, visible to textblock. Heavier spotting to first and last few pages, and the occasional page. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: [First edition]. **#23 of 250 copies of the deluxe large paper quarto edition.**Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. 3/4 midnight blue leather and mustard buckram, with the Beaufort coat of arms in gilt on front cover; light overall soiling with spot and smudge on front cover; new spine backstrip with gilt lettering. Armorial bookplate on pastedown; front inner hinge cracked but tight; top edges gilt. Contents clean and fresh; small [private library?] label on rear pastedown. A very good copy.
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada