Author: Jacobs, Lieutenant Helen Hull, USNR
Title: Laurel for Judy (Signed / Inscribed by Author)
Description: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1945. First Edition. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [8], 1-211, [3]; brown cloth over boards, printed in black and decorated with a small vignette; pictorial dust jacket; small bumps to upper corners of boards and minor wear and creasing to tips of spine; in very good condition. DJ with a small loss of paper to head of spine and a few other chips and nicks to edges; in good or better condition. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the author on ffep. Helen Hull Jacobs (1908 - 1997) was a world-class tennis player, an author, and a Commander in the US Navy Intelligence during the Second World War, one of only five women to reach that rank in the Navy. Growing up in Berkeley and starting to play tennis at the age of thirteen, she would go on to win nine Grand Slam titles. She would also be remembered for scandalizing the masses by being the first woman to wear man-tailored shorts at Wimbledon in 1933. Jacobs wrote numerous books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the current one, set in sunny California, which told the fictional story of fifteen-year-old Judy Martin, who would persevere and would ultimately become United States Junior tennis champion. Very good .

Keywords: Tennis, California, Fiction


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