USA: 1979. 3rd draft of this all time classic golf movie, signed by the 4 main characters, Bill Murray, Chevey Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight. The film has garnered a large cult following and has been hailed by media outlets, such as Time and ESPN, as one of the..... More
ca 1895. Lawrence "Laurie" Auchterlonie (8 December 1867 – 20 January 1948) was a Scottish professional golfer, a native of St Andrews. In 1902, representing the Glen View Club, he won the eighth U.S. Open at Garden City Golf Club in Garden City, New York. Rare original photograph of the..... More
Augusta: Augusta National Golf Club, 1965. Pairing sheet form the Par 3 tournament signed by several players, Tony Lema won the Open 3 months later but would die the following summer in a plane accident. This makes his autograph hard to find, this along with Palmer and Nicklaus makes this..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1919. 252p. pictorial cloth. 7th impression. Impressive title of this multiple major champion, his less impressive follow up book in 1925 "Guide to Good Golf" gave much more detail of his methods. Almost unheard of dust jacket, in very good condition, small chips. D&J B5980. More
Santa Barbara, California: The Pacific Coast Publishing Company, 1952. 208p. cloth. 1st edition ltd. 250 copies only. After the passing of Harlan Aldrich Becker the 250 copies where taken out of a bank vault and distributed amongst his friends according to his last Will and Testament. One way to avoid..... More
England: Grant, 1992. 117p. gilt stamped leather. Illustrators edition. ltd ed. 26/30 copies. hand coloured plates. D&J B11230. More
Walton Heath Golf Club: . 1948. Very fine example of Braids handwriting on his very impressive stationary, nicely signed "Yours Faithfully Jas Braid" ; Pat Craigie, was the uncle of the previous owner, he was the honorary secretary of The Edinburgh & District Professional Golfers' Association of 181 Morrison Street..... More
Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, 1912. 68p. cloth. Illustrated with plates from photos; double-page color map plan of the Moncreiffe Island Golf Course, original decorative red cloth. First Edition. The Club was founded in 1858 by local Perth gentlemen who wanted to form a club "whose interest would be more..... More
Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1887. 134p. decorative cloth. 7x4¾, original flexible pictorial red cloth stamped in black, first Edition. D&J C8890. More
Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1891. 88 pp. 7x4¾, original flexible pictorial red cloth stamped in black, housed in library wrappers. Second Edition. The second revised edition of Chambers' A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf of 1862, following the second printing of 1866 titled Gymnastics, Golf, Curling. This volume was..... More
Boston: Little Brown, 1926. 115 pp. Illustrated from photographs. 7½x5, green cloth. First Edition. Rare Jacket Collett won 6 U.S. Women's Amateur titles during her career -. Murdoch 138; D&M 12710; D&J C16090. More
London: Knopf, 1929. 228 pp. Introduction by Bobby Jones. Photograph plates. 19x12.2 cm. (7½x5"), orange cloth, spine lettered in blue, illustrated dust jacket. First UK Edition. More
Purves & Cunningham, 1907. 124 pp Very hard to find, first edition history of the Largo, Lundin Links area of Fife. Chapter on the Lundin Links Golf Club, Lundin ladies, Innerleven and Thistle and Leven ladies clubs. This book must have sparked his interest in the golf history of the..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935. 42p. 22 coloured illustrations, paper boards. Very Good condition, we have rerely seen a better copy, pages immaculate. This the third and final of the series written and illustrated by the Darwins. In 1906 he married Irish born artist, Elinor Mary Monsell (1879-1954) and..... More
London: The Travel Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1946. 8pp (folder). Illustrated by Rowland Hill. Excellent condition. D&J D4660. More
Lake Placid: Seymour Dunn, 1922. 283p. cloth. Illustrated with photographs throughout; folding chart in the rear. 31x23 cm. (12x9¼"), gilt-lettered dark blue cloth. Inscribed by the author to A.G. Gregson on the author's portrait. Contains a folding golf specification chart in rear which shows the characteristics of a golf club..... More
United States of America: Zephyr Productions, 1997. 576p. Foreword by Karen Bednarski. Illustrations from 800 full-color photographs depicting more than 640 antique clubs. Original black leatherette, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, dust jacket, matching gilt-lettered black slipcase. No. 333 of 400 copies. First Edition. Signed by author on the..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent and Co., 1897. Title page missing, library binding, 84p 6th rev. none the less a very unusual title. Preface dated 1897 Donovan and Jerris mention a 6th edition but not dated. Contents good, D&J F11950. More
Worcestershire: Grant Books, 1994. 129p. leather, slipcase. 6/70 ltd. ed.specially bound copies, "Professional Golfers Association, Presentation Copy." Illustrated from photographs, etc. (Large 8vo) original full maroon morocco stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, publisher's gilt-stamped maroon cloth slipcase. Bound by Cedric Chivers Ltd. Signed by Peter Fry and..... More
London: James Nisbet, 1914. 554p, cloth. 10th edition. This fine comprehensive Year Book was published for 10 consecutive years and demised at the onset of the First World War. Spine has the white text, very good boards good clean pages, contents very good. A treasure trove of information covering a...... More
Crawley, Near Winchester, England: Henderson and Stirk Ltd, 1979. 1979 Henderson & Stirk, 1979. A complete history of the evolution of golf, taking the story up to 1914 and describing the leading personalities involved in the history of the game - ballmakers, clubmakers, cleekmakers, golfers - and the balls and..... More
USA: 1960. Insurance claim contract. Very nice clear signed document on behalf of his Company, signed twice in as good a Hogan hand has one will find. More
London: Constable, 1938. 56p. cloth. 1st edition, dust wrapper. The first attempt to collate the early golfing literature. Hopkinson was a London book dealer who became the foremost authority of golf books during the first half of the 20th century. Very clean copy of a hard to find book, especially..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1893. 120p, 1/4 cloth illustrated boards. Illustrated. First Edition, first printing. Complete with fragile spine that is often lacking in this title, went into many printing's and hence was a popular book in a similar sense as his Hints on golf first printed in..... More
London: J. S. Virtue and Co., 1897. 331p. dec. cloth. Illustrated from numerous photographs and engravings throughout. First Edition. This is one of the most elaborate books of the period, lavishly illustrated with remarkable photographs, etc. It also serves as an interesting commentary on the styles of clubhouses built at..... More
