The Phantom Drive and Other Tennis Stories
New York: American Lawn Tennis, 1924.
Illustrated by Illustrated. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #14972
Cocked, light tone, cloth stain, edgewear, owner's emboss on front free endpaper, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Frontispiece photograph of Tilden and nine other photographic illustration plates. Published while he was near the end of his six US singles championship run. Collection of twelve short stories with tennis theme, dedicated to Tilden's older brother, Herbert, also a tennis champion, who died of pneumonia in 1915. Big Bill Tilden is arguably the greatest tennis player of all time, and was the first American to win the gentlemen's singles at Wimbledon. ; viii, 235, 1 ad pages.
Price: $149.95