Glory's Net (Helen Wills Moody's Copy)

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1930. Cloth. Very Good +/Near Fine. A superb copy of the 1930 stated 1st edition, with 2 very unusual features: 1) This copy is signed by and from the personal library of Helen Wills Moody (1905-1998), the great American tennis champion of the 1920s and '30s, and the top female player in the world during this stretch; 2) This copy also includes the publisher's very uncommon original wraparound, printed band. Thick 12mo, the book tight and VG to VG+ in its lawn-green boards. And the price-clipped dustjacket bright, very sharp and Near Fine. A wonderful tennis rarity from 1930.