How to Play Golf.
London: Methuen, 1923. 187p. plus ads. cloth. Seventeenth edition. Perennial classic. Vardon dominated golf for a 25 year period winning a record 6 Open Championships and a US Open. More
New Arrivals
The Chester Horton Golf Lessons (standard)
N.P USA? Privately printed, Issued by The Halifax Herald, ca 1925. 32p. wrappers. Chester Horton began his golfing career in 1893 carrying the clubs of the famed Charles Blair Macdonald around the Chicago Golf Club links, the first 18-hole course in America. Horton went on to be a professional player..... More
The New Golf
New York: Dutton, 1917. 319p decorated cloth. New and Enlarged edition. D&J V1510. More
The Short Game.
Chicago, Illinois: Beckley-Ralston, 1930. 40p, illustrated wrappers. 7th edition, unusual title. Instruction and advertising from The Beckley-Ralston Co. D&J V1540... More
Making Golf Easier.
Edinburgh: Stoddart & Malcom, 1933. 51p. wrappers. Early English pioneer, taking golf to the continent. Father of the one and only Peter. More
Golf Clubs and How to Use Them.
Detroit: W.J. Brueckman Co., 1929. 22p. Illustrated wrappers. Very hard to find Hagen title, particularly in this condition. D&J H1750; Very good. More
Modern Golf
London: Adam and Charles, 1909. 252p. Decorative cloth. Containing one hundred full-page illustrations from photographs and fifty-six diagrams. Pp. xvi+252, frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 100 plates, text figures, rules of golf, index; dark blue pictorial cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, a trifle flecked and rubbed, spine faded and..... More
Golf for Women.
London: T. Werner Laurie and Son, 1912. 185p. cloth. Early ladies title, possibliy inspired by James Braid's Ladies Field book. More
Golfing
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1893. 120p, green wrappers.. 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 1886. Published..... More
Driving - Approaching - Putting.
London: Methuen, 1922. 47p, illustrated boards. Hard to find first edition of this book, went into many printings. D&J R3160. More
The Golfers Companion.
England: Dent, 1937. 498p cloth edited by Lawless. chapters by Bernard Darwin, Henry Cotton, Robert Browning, A.H. Padgham, Eleanor Helme, O.B. Keeler. More
Progressive Golf
London: Hutchinson, 1920. 160p. cloth. Hard to find first edition. Went into many printings, another popular instructional from the biggest name of the period. Book very good, jacket slightly chipped but good. D&J V3130. More
Golf
London: George Bell and Sons, 1892. 58p. decorative cloth. Second edition. First 1889, second 1892. illustrated with four photographs of "Old Tom" Morris. A third edition in 1895 was also published. Author was the founder and Captain of the Cambridge University Golf Club and a personal friend of Old Tom..... More
Golf in Theory and Practice.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1896. 194p. cloth. Early and popular instruction from the St Andrews golfer, went in to many editions, this the hard to find first. D&J E8920. More
Taylor on Golf.
London: Hutchinson, 1902. 328p. Illustrated with 48 plates from photographs specially taken for this work, including frontispiece with "Taylor's Grip." original gilt-decorated green cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Classic title, instruction, autobiography, course upkeep, ladies golf, club directory, championship courses are just some of the subjects covered in..... More
Golf for Girls.
London: George Newnes, ca 1911. 91p. illustrated wrappers. Cecil Leitch born in Silloth in 1891 widely thought of as the country leading female golfer of the 20th century, the book was originally written and published in the UK in 1911 when she was just 20 years old, she was Holder..... More
Golf on a New Principle: iron clubs superceded
Bournemouth, England: F.J. Bright, 1897. 69p. illustrated boards. Scarce title. A new type of club is being promoted in great detail, Crosshead clubs are going to supersede irons. This club did not meet with widespread approval, and hence the book likely had not to many buyers. D&J O3130. More
Taylor on Golf.
London: Hutchinson, 1902. 328p. 2nd edition. Illustrated with 48 plates from photographs specially taken for this work, including frontispiece with "Taylor's Grip." original gilt-decorated green cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Classic title, instruction, autobiography, course upkeep, ladies golf, club directory, championship courses are just some of the subjects..... More
Some Golfing 'IFs'.
United Kingdom: British Steel Golf Shafts, 1948. 40p, illustrated wrappers. Promotional booklet of the back of his 3rd Open victory. More
The Golfer's Pocket Tip Book.
London: Mills and Boon, 1911. 126p. Leather wrappers. 34 illustrations of Jack White playing. Chapter on putting by Jack White. D&J F13900. More
Golfing By Numbers.
London: Alexander Ouseley, 1927. 31p, cloth. unusual title. D&J C16690. More
Hints on Golf.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1893. 83p. illustrated cloth 8th edition revised of this turn of the century classic, front board well worn, contents are good. D&J H29410. More
Golf Donts: Admonitions that will Help the Novice to Play Well and Scratch Men to Play Better
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900. 114p. Cloth. 6¼x4¼, coarse tan-yellow cloth, green-stamped vignette on front and rear covers, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Fitzpatrick was the first golf reporter in America; he covered the very first tournament, held in 1894, for the New York Sun. D&J..... More
The Simplicity of the Golf Swing
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1911. 72p. red cloth. First edition. More