Cutnall Green: Grant Books, 2001. Part 2 of 4 Volumes produced for the Royal and Ancient Golf Clubs 250th celebration. 286p, cloth. Volume 2 Champions & Guardians 1884-1939 1674/1754 One of the most important golf history publications ever produced, years in the making, The definitive history of the Royal and Ancient Golf..... More
London: Ashford Press Publishing, 1987. 483p, decorative cloth. reprint of the 1890 1st edition. Introduction from the eleventh Duke of Beaufort. More
London: Chapmans, 1991. 80p. cloth. Useful 'go to' reference book. More
Ballater, Royal Deeside, Scotland: Glengarden Press, 2008. 384p 1st edition. St Andrews edition, limited edition, unspecified number published in cloth. Colour plates, illustrated end papers. The Full leather subscribers edition of 87 copies and the quarter leather Keeper of the Green edition of 395 copies sold out along time ago. Fifteen..... More
New Ridley: Hobbs & McEwan, 1995. 176p cloth ltd ed 251/1000 copies. D&J L11260. More
Den Haag: Strengholt, 1990. 76p. cloth. Third edition, first published in 1982 and before that in some privately printed versions. Best study of golf on the continent. More
Saint Bonnet en Brasses, Bourgogne: Choulla et Clava, 2011. 258p. illus. wrappers. limited edition of the Non-Royal ed. No. 056 of an unspecified no. More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1901. 167p. decorative cloth. Introduction by Findlay S. Douglas. Frontispiece photograph of the Shinnecock Hills clubhouse, and five additional full-page photographic illustrations. Article "Some writers who golf" is a very important essays providing biographical information about some of the games earliest writers. D&J B4450. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1890. 463p, illus. cloth. With plates from paintings, photographs; frontispiece, etc. 7¼x5¼, original decorative brown cloth, lettered in black and white, gilt-stamped vignette and additional gilt lettering on spine. Classic title, later printings. Must have for any golf library and good value for such..... More
St. Andrews: St. Andrews Golf Press, 2020. 322p. illustrated, Limited edition signed and numbered 9 copies only. Very special publication, slipcase bound, simulated leather, embossed with the U.S.G.A. winner award 2020 This is the second book hot of the heels of In the Footsteps of Ols Tom Morris, McStravick has..... More
Edinburgh: R & R Clark, 1875. 284p. decorative cloth. Illustrated by Clark Stanton, C/A. Doyle and G. Aikman. Very significant and well produced early title. Compilation of the earliest literature of the game. Clark collected early press reports, biographical sketches, significant acts of Parliament, municipal records, diaries, a extracts of..... More
Scotland: Partick Press, 1987. 21p, quarter leather. limited edition 52/70 The scarce 1791 poem is reproduced. Published for friends of the press. Hardest of David Hamilton's titles to find, but essential to complete the collection. D&J H4000. More
Wick: Privately Published, 1977. 20 plates, Folder. Photographs taken 1884 and 94. Limited edition number 56/1000 Useful historical photographs of some well known greats of the day, More
London: Golf Illustrated Ltd, by London & Counties Press, 1912. 276p. Full Red Leather. Profusely illustrated from photographs, drawings, paintings, etc.; 3 color plates and 2 photogravures. (4to) 12¼x9¾", original full red pebbled calf, gilt-tooled pictorial lion emblem lettered "Far & Sure" on front cover, lettered in gilt, all edges..... More
Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1887. 68p. red wrappers, black text. Cornerstone title. Rare title, providing firsthand accounts of the Old course and St. Andrews, thus important to historians of early golf.. Balfour would become a cabinet minister. Book is renowed for its fragile construction, this copy having just one crease to..... More
[Hastings-on-Hudson, NY;: Roger, Kellogg, Stillson. 1963. 146pp. & 114pp. Cloth. Foreword by Alexander B. Halliday. Illustrated with plates from photographs and other reproductions; colour frontispiece from a painting of John Reid; illustrated endpapers. This the updated 1963 edition, being a reprint of the scarce 1938 edition with a update 25..... More
London: Dent, 1955. 236p, cloth. This is one of 'The Classics' in the Golf Library. A well researched history, every historian should have. D&J B27940. More
London: Dent, 1955. 236p, cloth. This is one of 'The Classics' in the Golf Library. A well researched history, every historian should have. D&J B27940. More
New Jersey: U.S.G.A., 2005. 32p, illustrated stiff wrappers. oblong, picture story of some of the U.S.G.A's significant moments, or a mere sampling of their history, from the beginning with John Reid all the way through to Nicklaus and Irwin. More
London: Ashford Press Publishing, 1987. 483p, decorative cloth. reprint of the 1890 1st edition. Introduction from the eleventh Duke of Beaufort. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1898. 482p 1/2 leather, cloth. 6th edition revised, deluxe edition. Illustrated with several plates from paintings, photographs, engravings, etc., including frontispiece with tissue-guard; plus numerous wood engravings within the text. original decorative brown cloth, lettered in black and white, gilt-stamped vignette and additional gilt lettering..... More
Oxford: Cambuc Archive, 1996. 164p, cloth. limited edition 195/900 Golf in the middle ages, this book sets out to show such a game existed. Signed by Hawtree. D&J H10300. More
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1985. 518p, cloth, slipcase. First Edition. Large 8vo. xviii + 518pp. Frontispiece. 301/400 copies of the only edition published. Major work, studying the published works of C.B. Clapcott's study of early golf in Lothian. Signed and dedicated to David by Alastair Johnston. D&J J7540. More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. 96p, cloth. 2nd edition 1st 1982. Early Golfing History. More
Scotland, 1985. 48p, wrappers. More common second edition of this classic title, preface by Herbert Warren Wind. Foreword by Tom Watson. D&J G34840. More
