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LAWN TENNIS: ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE BY J. PARMLY PARET: TO WHICH IS ADDED A CHAPTER ON LACROSSE BY WILLIAM HARVEY MADDREN.
by Paret, J. Parmly and William Harvey Maddren,
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: The MacMillan Co.. Very Good+. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition: #28 of 100 large paper copies from The American Sportsman's Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. Three-quarters brown morrocco over marbled boards with 5 spine bands and gilt decoration & lettering. Matching marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt with deckle cut page edges. [xv, 419pp]. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded b/w frontis-portrait and 65 photographs on 50 pages. Text and hinges tight & intact. Leaves clean without foxing. A few light edge scuffs. Early owner's bookplate "MASON W. ZIMMERMAN, PHILADELPHIA". Sports; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 419 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17743
- Title
- LAWN TENNIS: ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE BY J. PARMLY PARET: TO WHICH IS ADDED A CHAPTER ON LACROSSE BY WILLIAM HARVEY MADDREN.
- Author
- Paret, J. Parmly and William Harvey Maddren,
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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