Perry on Tennis: Expert Advice for All on Lawn Tennis.

PERRY, Fred.

$975.00

Item Number: 148033

Toronto/ Philadelphia/ Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1937.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Fred Perry on the front free endpaper in pencil. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, ownership stamp of Sidney Wood to the front pastedown. Wood was  tennis player who won the 1931 Wimbledon singles title. Wood was ranked in the world’s Top 10 five times between 1931 and 1938, and was ranked World No. 6 in 1931 and 1934 and No. 5 in 1938 by A. Wallis Myers of The Daily Telegraph. Rare and desirable signed and with noted provenance.

Fred Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships from 1934 to 1936 and was World Amateur number one tennis player during those three years. Prior to Andy Murray in 2013, Perry was the last British player to win the men's Wimbledon championship, in 1936, and the last British player to win a men's singles Grand Slam title until Andy Murray won the 2012 US Open. Perry was the first player to win a "Career Grand Slam" winning all four singles titles at the age of 26 which he completed at the 1935 French Championships and remains the only British player ever to achieve this.