Books


Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad, edited by A. Wallis Myers, London, 1903
The first survey of British and international lawn tennis by one of the leading tennisjournalists of the first half of the 20th century


The Tennis Players, from pagan rites to strawberries and cream, by Tom Todd, Guernsey, 1971 circulation 500 copies
Maybe the ultimate book on the development of ball games in antiquity to the modern tennis game


Match Play and the Spin of the Ball by William T. Tilden,2nd, New York, 1924
Signed by the author, luxury and limited edition, nr 37 of 340 copies printed


The Complete Lawn Tennis Player (4th edition,first published 1908) by A. Wallis Myers, London 1912
The evolution and organisation of lawn tennis, technical aspects and how to play and physiological and psychology, London 1924 al elements of the game


Forty years of First Class Lawn Tennis by G.W. Hillyard, London 1924
Fine, amusing and instructive stories on lawn tennnis and its foremost players by a long time secretary of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon


Lawn Tennis, Handbuch des Lawn Tennis Spieles, by Freiherr Robert von Fichard, Baden-Baden, 1887
The very first German book on lawn tennis; what you need to play the game,the racket, clothing, the rules, etc.


Tales from the Tennis Court, an Anthology of tennis writing, edited by Richard Evans, London, 1983
A choice of the best writings on lawn tennis of the greatest moments and players of the game


The Annals of Tennis by Julian Marshall, London, 1878
History of real tennis, in England and abroad


On Lawn Tennis by Reginald Frank Doherty and Hugh Lawrence Doherty, London, 1912
Showing the technical aspects of playing lawn tennis; The Doherty brothers dominated international tennis from 1897 to 1906


Tennis: Origins and Mysteries, by Malcolm D. Whitman, London,1932 circulation 450 copies
Unknown mysteries coming to light; most extensive bibliography on real and lawn tennis from before our era until 1930


Tennis and the Meaning of Life, A Literary Anthology of the Game edited by Jay Jennings,New York, 1995
Views on lawn tennis you would never think of; with a section on the best tennispoems


Lawn Tennis in Australasia by "Austral" (pen name), Sydney and Brisbane, 1912
History of Australian and New Zealand lawn tennis and their first international players


Wimbledon, Centre Court of the Game, by Max Robertson, London, 1981
A survey of Wimbledon from the first beginnings until 1980 by the best known British tenniscommentator after 1945


Roland Garros, Livre du Tournois du Centenaire, 100 years of Roland Garros, by Gilles Delamarre, Paris, 1991
The history of the lawn Tennis Championships of France, 1891-1991, with some surprising photo's


Rod Laver, an Autobiography, by Rod Laver, Chicago, 2016
"The greatest champion our sport has known", writes Roger Federer in his foreword about the only winner in history of two Golden Slams