"WILLIAM HENDRICKS' HISTORY OF BILLIARDS - A COMPLETE HISTORIE OF BILLIARD EVOLUTION - WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS." ABOUT 8.5 BY 11 INCHES WITH 54+ PAGES.  COPYRIGHT 1974.  PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. JUST AN INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF THE GAME WITH RARE INFORMATION AND PHOTOS.  CHAPTERS INCLUDE: INTRODUCTION-THE FORGOTTEN STORY; WORD AND GAME-A SEARCH FOR ORIGINS; BILLIARDS IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES; THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY-BILLIARDS FOR EVERYMAN; THE BEGINNINGS OF AN INDUSTRY; TABLES AND BALLS BEFORE 1800; TRAILING AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE MACE; THE GAME AT BILLIARDS AFTER 1734; THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY-THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN GAME; JOHN THURSTON'S IMPROVEMENTS (OF) SLATE AND RUBBER; CUES AND BALLS; BILLIARDS ON THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SCENE; RETROSPECTIVE-THE DUAL NATURE. ........... AN ABSOLUTE "MUST HAVE" FOR THE BILLIARDS HISTORIAN. BOOK IS IN NEAR-MINT CONDITION.

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