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First Edition · one copy only
Sport Es Szerelem [The Love Game]
Suzanne Lenglen Legrady Testverek, Budapest · 1928
First Edition. This is the extremely scarce Hungarian first edition of Suzanne Lenglen's classic tennis novel The Love Game. It was issued in a pulp fiction series of staple-bound paperbacks and printed on very brittle paper.
Hardly any copies are known to survive. The book has card covers featuring an illustration of a wistful-looking player with bobbed wavy hair holding a racquet, but doubtless thinking of love. The illustration is in black, gray and red on the yellow card background.
A worn and rubbed copy of an incredibly feeble piece of book production. A rare survival, and only the third copy I have seen in trading in Hungarian books for over 15 years.
Written by Dr Jeremy Parrott, who has the book in his hands. Nothing here is generated from a catalogue record.
Bibliographic detail
| Author | Lenglen, Suzanne |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Legrady Testverek, Budapest |
| Date | 1928 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Condition | Good Only |
| Stock reference | ab_1222154829 |
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