By Frank Deford

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1976).

First edition, first printing.

Enhanced with twenty-six photographs on striking black-and-white plates.

Tilden, who was the most famous athlete during the first half of the nineteenth century, dominated Tennis, winning every significant match he played for a solid seven years.

He had a fascinating sports career and a tumultuous life in his later years.

As a professional sports writer, Deford knows how to ask questions that produce detailed sports knowledge and reflections, as well as revealing a famous person's personal life.

This tennis insiders book is drawn from numerous interviews with people who knew Tilden.

The tennis star had no personal relationships during his early career, acting haughty and living with fame and the sports circuit only.

Tilden sought homosexual relationships later in life, was criminally convicted for homosexuality, and was snubbed and barred from tennis games during his fifties.

Fine in textured blue boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a fine dust jacket; original $8.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 286 pages; index.

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