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  1. ASHE ARTHUR with Frank Detford Portrait In Motion.  illus. with  16  full  page plates  t/out.  pub.  U.S.A.  Houghton Mifflin 1975 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.272.    Price:  $30.00
     
  2. AUSTIN H.W. (BUNNY) & PHYLLIS KONSTAM A Mixed Double. with 16  full  page  plates t/out. & 4 line  illus.  pub. Lond. Chatto & Windus 1969 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.264.    Price: $30.00
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  3. BETZ  PAULINE  Wings On My  Tennis  Shoes. illus.  with frontis.  & 24 full page plates t/out. pub.  Lond.  Sampson Low 1949 1st.ed. or.cl. 12mo. pp.X.198.   Price:  $35.00
     
  4. BUDGE J. DONALD  Budge On Tennis. illus. with frontis. & 22  full  page  plates t/out. pub. Lond. Jarrolds nd.  1947 8th imp.  or.cl. 8vo. pp.160. inscription to f/free e/paper, stating 1947. Very good copy.   Price: $30.00
     
  5. BUDGE PATTY Tennis My Way. illus. with 48 ("flicker" photo plates)  full  page plates t/out. pub.  Lond.  Hutchinson's Lib. of Sports and Pastimes 1951 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w.  12mo. pp.140.     Price: $30.00
     
  6. BURROW F.R. The Centre Court-And Others Referee of the Championsuip at Wimbeldon for the last 18 years. illus. with frontis. & 11 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1937 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.X.312. little sunned to spine of d/w. otherwise fine copy.       Price: $175.00
     
  7. CASH PAT My Story. with Bruce Mathews. illus. with 12  full page col. plates t/out. b/w. text plates pub. Melb. Penguin Books 1987 p/b. cr.4to. pp.96. fine.    Price: $20.00
     
  8. CUTLER  NORMAN  Inside Tennis. illus. with frontis.  &  16 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. 1954 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.232. lacks f/free e/paper, spine sl. sunned.    Price: $30.00
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  9. FRALEY  OSCAR (text) photos by Charles Yerkow. How To Play Championship Tennis. Let these eleven court aces teach  you how  to play  Winning Tennis. illus. with  more  than  400 continues action photographs. pub. N.Y. A.A. Wyn, Inc. 1954 or.red white & blu. pict. wps. 4to. pp.98. fine.    Price: $30.00
     
  10. GALLWEY  W.  TIMOTHY Inner  Tennis.  Playing  The  Game. Detailed mental and physical exercises in self-mastery. pub. N.Y. Random House 1976 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.174. $30.00
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  11. GARNETT MICHAEL P.    A History Of Royal Tennis In Australia. illus. with 20 plates (8 coloured), black & white text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, appendix, index; pub. Melbourne Historical Publications, Mt. Waverley, Victoria, 1983 or. maroon leatherette binding with gold titles, red ribbon marker, d/w. roy.8vo. pp.XVI.224     Price: $55.00
     
  12. GOOLAGONG  EVONNE  and  Bud Collins  with  Victor Edwards. Evonne.  illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. pub.  Lond. Hart-Davis 1975 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192. fine.    Price: $35.00
     
  13. GOOLAGONG EVONNE with Phil Jarratt. Home! The Evonne Goolagong Story. profusely illus. with text plates t/out. some col. pub. Syd. Simon & Schuster 1993 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.400.    Price: $40.00
     
  14. GONZALES  PANCHO Man With A Racket. Autobiography. illus. with  16 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. &  N.Y.  Thomas Yoseloff 1959 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.238.    Price: $40.00
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  15. HIERONS  CHARLES  How To Learn Lawn  Tennis.  illus.  with frontis.  & 28 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond.  &  Melb. Ward Lock & co. 1922 or.illus.cl. 12mo. pp.190.   Price: $50.00
     
  16. HOAD LEW JACK POLLARD My Game. illus. with frontis. & 14  full-page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Hodder  &  Stoughton 1958 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224.    Price: $35.00
     
  17. HOPMAN  HARRY  Aces And Places. illus. with 16  full  page plates  t/out. Lond. 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.  pp.240. a very fine copy.    Price: $25.00
     
  18. JOHNSON  JOSEPH  Grand Slam Australia. The  Story  of  the Australian Open Tennis. with illus. e/papers and many  b/w. photo plates t/out. pub. Melb. Courtney Books 1985  1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo.obl. pp.364.    Price: $35.00
     
  19. JOHNSON JOSEPH Amazing Grace. The Story of the Grace  Park Lawn Tennis Club 1889-1989. with e/paper and plates  t/out. some  col. 4 full page pub. Melb. by Lawn Tennis Club  1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.XIV.210.    Price: $40.00
     
  20. KING  BILLIE JEAN FRANK DEFORD The  Autobiography Of Bille Jean  King. illus. with 16 full page  plates  t/out. pub. Lond. Granada 1982 or.cl. d/w. roy.8vo. pp.208. v/fine    Price: $35.00
     
  21. LAWN TENNIS Championships-The 1952. Upon the lawns of the all England Club Wimbledon. Official programme Tuesday 24th June Second Day. illus. with plates advts. t/out. some col. pub.  Lond. 1952 or. pink & b/w. pict.wps. roy.4to.  pp.30.    Price: $35.00
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  22. LAWN  TENNIS  Tournament  Including  The  Championships of London  on  Grass  Mon.  June 16  to  Sat.  June  21  1952. programme  of  matches.  this being Fri.  June  20th  1952. illus.  with  photo  plates advts. t/out.  pub.  Lond.  or. dk.blu. & white wps. roy.4to. pp.26. fine.    Price: $35.00
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  23. LAWN TENNIS Association Of Australia.   1954 Davis Cup Challenge Round Melbourne. illus. with photo plates t/out. adverts, pub. Sydney White City Courts 1954 or. white illustrated wrappers cr.4to. pp.64. Information on the cup, players and teams, plus more.    Price: $45.00
     
  24. McENROE  JOHN A biography by Richard Evans. Written in  co-operation   with  John  McEnroe. McEnroe. A  Rage  For Perfection.  illus. with frontis. & profusely  illus.  with plates t/out. many full page pub. Lond. Sidgwick &  Jackson 1982 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192.    Price: $30.00
     
  25. McENROE JOHN Taming The Talent. biography by Richard Evans. illus.  with  16  full page plates  t/out.  pub.  N.Y.  The Stephen Greene Press 1990 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.216.   Price: $30.00
     
  26. MANDLIKOVA An Autobiography with Malcolm Folly. illus. with  16  full page plates t/out. pub. Lond.  Weidenfeld  & Nicholson 1989 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.184.    Price: $30.00
     
  27. MATCH POINT  The  Nestle  Book  of  Tennis.   Contributors include.   Rod  Laver,  Mike  Sangster,  Fred  Perry,   Ken Rosewall,  Angela  Mortimer, Anglela  Buxton.  illus.  with frontis.  & many plates t/out. some full page pub. Lond.  & Syd.  The  Nestle  Sports Foundation &  Stanley  Paul  1963 1st.ed. or.cl. red & grn. pict. d/w. 4to. pp.128. fine.    Price: $25.00
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  28. MATHEWS  BRUCK  Game, Set And Glory.  A  History  of  the Australian  Tennis  Championships.  profusely  illus.  with plates,  some col. & full page pub. Melb. Five  Mile  Press 1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.138.    Price: $30.00
     
  29. METZLER PAUL  Great Players Of Australian Tennis with illustrated endpapers, numerous b/w illustrations throughout, appendix, index; pub. Sydney Harper & Row 1979 or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.202. Fine copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  30. MYERS A. WALLIS   Lawn Tennis Its Principles & Practice. illus. with 65 b/w. plates 11 text drawings; t/out. pub. London: Sealy Service & Co Volume V of Lonsdale Series 1930 8vo. or. tan cloth with gilt lettering, 8vo. pp.216. Fine copy.     Price: $80.00
     
  31. MYERS A. WALLIS     Captain Anthony Wilding illus. with 37 black-and-white photos (plates) and a sketch, index; pub. London Hodder and Stoughton, 1916 or. dark-blue cloth with gilt spine lettering 8vo. pp.XII,306 Biography of the New Zealand early lawn tennis great and Wimbledon (All England) champion killed on the Western Front in 1915. Owner's name inked at f/free e/paper else fine copy.    Price: $200.00
     
  32. NAVRATILOVA MARTINA with Mary Carillo. Tennis My Way. complete  handbook on exercise, diet, training and  playing by the world's number one woman tennis player. illus.  with plates t/out. some full page pub. U.S.A. & Melb. Allen Lane 1983 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.216.   Price: $30.00
     
  33. NOEL  SUSAN  Tennis In Our Time. illus. with 8  full  page plates t/out. pub. Lond. W. H. Allen 1954 or.cl. 8vo. pp.208. back sl. sunned otherwise fine.   Price: $30.00
     
  34. NUTHALL BETTY. -  Learning Lawn Tennis. illus. with frontis and 10 photo plates. pub. London, Herbert Jenkins 1928 1st.ed. or. ultramarine cloth with black lettering d/w.12mo. pp.240 bright cloth with little chipped, closed tear, else a fine copy.    Price: $100.00
     
  35. RITCHIE M.J.G. (Covered Courts Champion 1909) Text Book Of Lawn  Tennis.  illus. with frontis. & 25 full  page  plates t/out. pub. Lond. `Health & Strength' nd.190-? or.bds. deep red & white illus. wrapper pasted to front bd. 12mo. pp.88,8 advts. fine.  Price:  $100.00
     
  36. PANCHO GONZALES  How To Play And Win At Tennis  illus. with photographs and drawings; pub. London Souvenir Press, 1963 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.124. From gripping the racquet to the psychology of winning by famous Tennis Champion Pancho Gonzales along with tennis instructor, Dick Hawk. Gift inscription to f/free e/paper. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine.    Price: $35.00
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  37. PATTERSON NORMAN H. -  Lawn Tennis Courtcraft. Tactics and Psychology. illus. with drawings on play t/out. pub. Lond. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1936 or. re cl. cr.8vo. pp.XIV.112. sl., bump to rear board else fine.   Price: $45.00    Convert Currency
     
  38. PERRY FRED  An Autobiography. illus. with  16  full  page plates  t/out.  pub. Lond. Hutchinson 1984  1st.ed.  or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.204. fine copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  39. POTTER EDWARD C. The West Side Tennis Club Story. 60th Anniversary 1892-1952. illus. with frontis. & plates t/out. pub. N.Y. West Side Tennis Club 1952 or. blue and yellow bound cl. 8vo. pp. 46. Fine copy.    Price: $35.00
     
  40. RIGGS BOBBY Tennis Is My Racket. illus. with frontis. & 14 full  page  plates t/out. pub. Lond. nd.196-?  or.cl.  8vo. pp.144.  Price: $25.00
     
  41. ROWLEY  PETER with KEN ROSEWALL Rosewall. Twenty Years At  The Top. illus. with 8 full page plates  t/out.  pub. Lond. Cassell 1976 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.240.   Price: $35.00
     
  42. SEDGMAN  FRANK Winning Tennis. The Australian way  to  a better game. Forward by Harry Hopman. illus. with many photo plates t/out. pub. Syd. The Australian Pub Co. pub. 1955 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.132.   Price: $35.00
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  43. SMITH GRAHAM KINROSS The Sweet Spot. One hundred years of life and tennis in Geelong. A Centenary history of the Geelong Lawn Tennis club. illus. with text plates t/out. pub. Melb. Hyland House Pub. 1982 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. sm.4to. pp.190.  Price: $35.00
     
  44. SMITH MARGARET As told to Don Lawrence. The Margaret Smith Story.  illus. with frontis. & 12 full page  plates  t/out. pub. Lond.  Stanley  Paul 1965 1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w.  8vo. pp.192.   Price: $30.00
     
  45. SMYTH JOHN Jean Borotra The Bounding Basque. His Life  of Work  and Play. illus. with frontis. & 12 full page  plates t/out. pub. Lond. 1974 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XIV.240.   Price: $35.00
     
  46. TABLE TALK Magazine. illus. with plates t/out.  some  full page, one  plate of Adrian Quist in action  on  the  front cover.  pub.  Melb.  Dec.31,  1936  or.illus.wps.  roy.4to. pp.48.   Price:  $45.00
     
  47. TALBERT WILLIAM F. and BRUCE S. OLD The Game Of Double Tennis. illus. with 16 full page plates t/out. text dgms. pub. Lond. Victor Gollancz 1957 1st.ed. or. cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.224. fine in the sl. chipped d/w.   Price:  $30.00
     
  48. TILDEN WILLIAM T.     Match Play And The Spin Of The Ball illus. with frontis. & 38 plates, pub. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1928; or olive green cloth, 12mo. p..XII,144,8 publisher's advertisments; very good copy.    Price: $125.00
     
  49. TINLING  TED  Tinling.  illus. with 24  full  page  plates t/out. pub. Lond. 1983 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.226.   Price: $35.00
     
  50. TINLING TED Tinling. Sixty Years In Tennis. illus. with 24 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Sidgwick & Jackson  1983 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.226.   Price: $35.00
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  51. TRENGOVE  ALAN The Story Of The Davis Cup. illus. with 32 full  page  plates  t/out. pub.  Lond.  Stanley  Paul  1985 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.XII.578.  Price:  $45.00
     
  52. WADE  VIRGINIA MARY LOU MELLACE  Courting Triumph. illus. with frontis. & 24 full page plates t/out. some col. pub. Lond. Hodder & Stoughton 1978 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.192.   Price:  $30.00
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  53. WILDING ANTHONY F. On The Court And Off. illus. with f rontis. & 56 photo plates t/out. pub. Lond. Methuen & Co. 1912 1st ed. or. dark aqua. cl. cr.8vo. pp.XVI.268,30. Glt. lettering to spine and front bd. Lacks one plate (102) otherwise fine copy.   Price: $150.00
     
  54. WOOD  PAT O'HARA The World's Tennis Stars and How To Play The Game. illus. with 30 full page plates t/out. pub. Melb. The  Imperial Press 1927 2nd.ed. or.grn.cl.  12mo.  pp.138. Pat  O'Hara was Doubles Champion at Wimbledon in  1919  and Mixed Doubles in 1922. Member of Australian Davis Cup  Team in  1920, 1922, and 1924. sl. rubbed lacks  f/free  e/paper one plate repaired with tape, a very good copy.   Price: $175.00 .Convert Currency
     
  55. YALLOP  RICHARD  Royal South Yarra Lawn Tennis  Club. years in Australian tennis. illus. with plates t/out.  some col.  pub.  Melb. Currey O'Neil 1984  1st.ed.  or.cl.  d/w. sm.4to. pp.XII.148   Price: . $35.00
     
       
       
     
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