"Racquet And Tennis Club Book For 1956" (SOLD) Africana

"Racquet And Tennis Club Book For 1956" (SOLD) Africana[174] pp. 1956 7 3 8" x 5 3 8" *slight fraying on top left cover board condition noted* Ex libris: Clarence Cecil Pell (1885 1964) Clarence C. Pell was a retired stockbroker and a noted racquets player. Mr. Pell was a descendant of the Pells who were hereditary lords of the manor of Pelham under a grant from King Charles II and who sold part of the land in 1688 to Huguenot settlers, who then founded New Rochelle. In the deed the city was obliged to

Published by MacMillan

20 monochrome drawings in the text

in reality

a self-enclosed world populated by jaded teenagers whose expectations

Illustrated by Gordon Allen

particularly since the Second World War

" Some of the articles in this issue include: "A Letter to Americans" by Jean Cocteau measuring 9 7/8" by 6 1/2" with its own wrappers

and philanthropist

in the author's words

Lapel Width: 4 3/4"W

Winston Churchill

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