The Education of a Tennis Player.

LAVER, Rod with Bud Collins.

$450.00

Item Number: 140060

London: Pelham Books, 1971.

First edition of the tennis great’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Andy Best Wishes Rod Laver.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Written with Bud Collins.

The Education of a Tennis Player is filled with suspenseful matches and memorable portraits of the tennis giants. Laver met and played against: Hoad, Rosewall, Roche, and a whole chapter on the Laver himself.