A scarce and early printing of Lieut. Colonel Robert D. Osborn's account of ''Lawn Tennis and its Players'' August 1881, contained in an 1881 volume o
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A scarce and early printing of Lieut. Colonel Robert D. Osborn's account of ''Lawn Tennis and its Players'' August 1881, contained in an 1881 volume of The Contemporary Review (Volume XL. July - December, 1881); sold together with a selection of lawn tennis and racquet sports related books including: Sport and the Artist (M.A. Wingfield 1988); The Art of Tennis (G.H. Schwartz - 1990); Wimbledon 100 Years of Men's Singles (M. Rowley 1986); Big Bill Tilden (F. Deford - 1976); Tennis, Squash and Badminton Bygones (G.N. Gurney 1984); Guinness Book of Badminton (P. Davis); War Games (T. McCarthy - 1989) etc., supplied with a pair of modern lawn tennis-themed brass and white metal book-ends; and a collection of various 24 mint copies of ''Tennis Collector'' magazines dating from No. 62 in 2008 until edition no. 89 in 2017 (34)