Wimbledon: A Celebration.
MCPHEE, John; Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt [Rod Laver; Rafael Nadal; Carlos Alcaraz; John Newcombe; Stan Smith; Roy Emerson].
Wimbledon: A Celebration.
First Edition of Wimbledon: A Celebration; Signed by Tennis Legends Rod Laver, Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz, Stan Smith, John Newcombe and Roy Emerson
New York: The Viking Press, 1972.
$4,200.00
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Item Number: 150613
First edition of this seminal work on Wimbledon. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page by tennis legends Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Stan Smith, John Newcombe and signed by Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A unique example.
"McPhee's text — a chapter on Wimbledon 1970 and one describing the work of lawnskeeper Robert Twynam — is as well executed as a service ace, although you might have read it all before in The New Yorker or A Roomful of Hovings (1968) where the Twynam piece has previously appeared or Playboy which ran the other one last year. Thoughtful tennis reportage is appreciated and McPhee's ranks with the best; likewise Eisenstaedt's photographs are very good indeed, capturing Wimbledon from star players to reverential spectators to the bobbies who patrol the Members' Enclosure" (Kirkus)
