E.B. NOEL AND J.M. CLARK
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E.B. NOEL AND J.M. CLARK

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E.B. NOEL AND J.M. CLARK
A History of Tennis, Volume I. London: Oxford University Press for Humphrey Milford, 1924. 4to., coloured frontispiece, plates, original blue cloth gilt (spine faded) with original dust-jacket (fragmented), edges uncut. Provenance: Allison Danzig (ownership inscription on front free endpaper and on title); with two typed signed letters, dated January 27 and 29, 1930, addressed to Allison Danzig from J.O.M. Clark; and a letter of provenance. (4)
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LIMITED TO 800 COPIES. The archive of Oxford University Press reveals that by 1932 some 380 sets of this cloth-bound edition were pulped. The true limitation is therefore nearer to 420. SCARCE DUST-JACKET. The accompanying letters relate to Danzig's research for The Racquet Game, requesting permission to quote from Noel and Clark's work.

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