Standardized Golf Instruction 5 book set!
New York: Seymour Dunn, 1934. 39p illustrated wrappers. All five books, preceding the book of the same name, hard to find single volumes, rare opportunity to have all five together. D&J D21610. More
New York: Seymour Dunn, 1934. 39p illustrated wrappers. All five books, preceding the book of the same name, hard to find single volumes, rare opportunity to have all five together. D&J D21610. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1890. xvi, 495p. Quarter leather. Contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, A.J. Balfour, Andrew Lang, H.S.C. Everard, etc. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Thomas Hodge and Harry Furniss, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. 9½x7½, original ½ blue morocco & gilt-stamped orange cloth, gilt-lettered spine..... More
London: Simkin, Marshall Hamilton, ca 1892. 17p. illustrated wrappers. Early fiction, lovely illustrations. Very fragile and scarce item in very good condition, spine professionally strengthened. Clam shell box. Superb copy Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J I3190. More
London: St. Catherine Press, 1925. 313p. 1/4 cloth. Foreword by Bernard Darwin. An anthology of golfing tips, Vardon, Braid, Barnes, Darwin, Taylor... all the great names are quoted, thus adding up to a very interesting title. Reportedly by Murdoch a print run of just 880 makes this book very hard..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895. 194p. Decorative cloth. Lee's 'Golf in America' is celebrated as the first book about golf written by an American. The book covers all aspects, of particular interest, is the migration of golf to Canada and the United States. The first American golf publication was Spalding's..... More
Scotland: Williams Blackwood, 1891. 100p. cloth. Introduction by Arthur James Balfour. Frontispiece from a photograph of author. Original red cloth, lettered and stamped in black. First Edition. An important book of reminiscences of golf of the day, particularly in Perth, from where McPherson hailed. McPherson was well known for holding..... More
Scotland: Williams Blackwood, 1891. 100p. cloth. Introduction by Arthur James Balfour. Frontispiece from a photograph of author. Original red cloth, lettered and stamped in black. First Edition. An important book of reminiscences of golf of the day, particularly in Perth, from where McPherson hailed. McPherson was well known for holding..... More
ca 1890. Rare, Stanhope viewer with Tom Morris as the subject (as per photograph), for the St. Andrews / Tom Morris fan that has everything, superb addition. Stanhopes or Stanho-scopes are optical devices that enable the viewing of microphotographs without using a microscope. They were invented by René Dagron in..... More
New York: Laurence Gomme, 1929. 12p. boards. Preferred revised edition. Very scarce instructional breaking down one of the leading instructor's theory of the time, Ernest Jones. D&J T8080. More