Lord AberdareThe Story of TennisPublisher information:Stanley Paul, London, 1959, first edition
Description and condition: Green cloth hardback with dustcover, 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch (8vo), 180 pp., b/w plates. Dustcover is clipped and has smaller closed tears, now protected. Book is very good or better with faint spotting to top page edges. Contents: The history of tennis starting in France in the Middle Ages with a game of hand-ball, which soon, with the development of the racket, became the favourite game of King and Court.
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