A classic memoir, A Handful of Summer is the hilarious account of the tennis travels of South African doubles partnership George Forbes and Abe Segal, and of the riotous characters who populated the amateur tennis world in the 50s and 60s as it stumbled towards professionalism. Full of superb anecdotes, bursting with vitality and humour, and written with unflagging zest and panache, it is a unique dressing-room view of the tennis world.
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A classic memoir, A Handful of Summer is the hilarious account of the tennis travels of South African doubles partnership George Forbes and Abe Segal, and of the riotous characters who populated the amateur tennis world in the 50s and 60s as it stumbled towards professionalism. Full of superb anecdotes, bursting with vitality and humour, and written with unflagging zest and panache, it is a unique dressing-room view of the tennis world.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($12.50 price intact). Published by Mayflower Books, 1978. Octavo. Green boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear, nicks and spine fading. 238 pages. ISBN: 083174362X. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Pages clean. Binding is tight. Page block clean. Dust Jacket in good condition with a few minor bumps due to shelf wear. The fly-leaf has been signed by eight leading tennis players of the time. Hardbound paper over board. Sewn binding Signatures on fly leaf identified as Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, Fred Stolle, (unable to decipher), Neale Frazer, Malcolm Anderson, Ken Rosewall and Eugene Scott