Lance John Butler Wordie (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very smart first edition of this collection of pieces on real tennis, with illustrations throughout. First edition. Illustrated throughout. Published to celebrate the four-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the oldest surviving tennis court in the world, this work offers a collection of writings on tennis and historical commentary on the sport. Edited by Lance St. John Butler, a British literary academic, and P. J. Wordie, a British writer and historian. With a foreword by His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, a member of the British royal family and the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II. In the original burgundy cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light shelf wear and a small closed tear to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.