signed photograph 1926
1926. Scarce Tillinghast inscribed dedication, dated 1926, the photo is more than likley of one of his construction team. Tillinghast designed some of America's most well known courses, holding the test of time over the years.
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Golf Plays and Recitations
London: R.A. Everett, 1904. 127p. Red cloth with black text. Scarce tale, this title rarely comes up and less so in this very good condition. Andre was a member of West Herts. golf club.
Golf and Golfers Past and Present
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. Custom leather slipcase. First Edition. An important book of reminiscences of golf of the day, particularly in Perth, from where McPherson hailed. McPherson was well...
Scots Acts
Edinburgh, Scotland: 1682 -1685. Three volumes; The Laws and Acts of Parliament made by King James the First and his Royal Successors. Edinburgh, 1682; The Acts made in the First Parliament of our most High and Dread Soveraign Charles the First. Edinburgh, 1683; The Laws and Acts made in the...
Picturesque Musselburgh and its Golf Links
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent. 1906. 108p decorative cloth. illustrated by Gemmell Hutchinson. Hard to find cloth edition and very rare dust jacket, only one other record of a dust jacket known, this was more brown in colour and sold for $7800 at auction. Possible gift inscription from the author...
Eltham Lodge and Eltham Golf Club House. A short account of its varied fortunes past and present
Blackheath: H. Burnside bookseller, Blackheath, 1894. Presented to Blackheath Golf Club from the author, great association piece. ; Previous property of Royal Blackheath Golf Club.
Practical Golf Greenkeeping.
London: Golf Printing and Publishing Co., ca. 1913. 100 + [2] ad pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs including frontispiece portrait of Gault and ads. 8½x5½, original gilt-lettered green cloth. First Edition. Gault was the greenkeeper at the Bruntsfield Links in Scotland. He begins his preface, "In this little book...
Bobby Locke's South African Golf Annual 1949.
Johannasburg: Wisearef, 1949. 213p. Only the 1948 edtion is listed. Some damp staining to top front board and about first 20 pages, nothing stuck together. Book has a strengthened spine. Very scarce and thus unlisted in Donovan and Jerris.
Hazards, Those Essential Elements in a Golf Course Without Which the Game Would be Tame and Uninteresting
Chicago: 1913. 61 pp. Illustrated from photographs; 12 golf course map drawings (1 folding of St. Andrews); cartoon frontispiece drawing from Golf Illustrated. (8vo) 20.5x14 cm (8x5½"), original red cloth-backed light green boards, front cover lettered in dark green. First Edition. A rare and charming book devoted to golf hazards...
Dean's Champion Handbooks: Golf
USA: Dean & Son, ca 1899. [2 (ads - front endpapers)], 63, [1] + [2] ad pp. and ad on paste-down endpaper. Illustrated with 7 plates from photographs, including frontispiece. (12mo) original decorative green cloth over thin boards, front cover stamped in red-orange, blue, white and black, spine lettered in...
Golf: a Royal and Ancient game.
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. A compilation of the earliest literature of the game. Clark collected early press reports, biographical sketches, significant acts of Parliament, municipal records, diaries, a extracts...
The Art of Golf.
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887. 186p. quarter leather cloth. One of the all time classic books in the whole Golf Library. Hard to find in its original condition the brown leather spine is often replaced due to a poor quality. Upon finishing the book he showed it to his friend Robert...
The Epic of Golf.
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 98p. illustrated boards. quarter cloth. Near Fine condition, in a very good jacket, obviously kept in the jacket all its life. Poetry. D&J 7390.
Picturesque Musselburgh and its Golf Links
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent. 1906. 108p decorative cloth. illustrated by Gemmell Hutchinson. Ex-library but original binding and three stamps two to FFEP and one in rear, not covering any text. Hard to find cloth edition. D&J M13900.
Golf and Golfers Past and Present
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...
British Golf Links, a short account of the leading golf links of the United Kingdom
London: J. S. Virtue and Co., 1897. 2], viii, 331 + v ad pp. Illustrated from numerous photographs and engravings throughout. 39.6x28.5 cm. (15½x11"), original cream coloured japon wrappers, titled in gilt, custom cream drop-back box. No. 169 of 250 copies. First Edition. The rare limited large paper edition with...
My Valderrama Years
Spain: Privately Published, 2006. 161p. wrappers. Boxed. Superb photographic autobiography, fascinating story of Patino's early life through to purchasing Sotogrande and redeveloping it with 80 year old Robert Trent Jones into continental europe's finest course, culminating in hosting the Ryder cup captained by Seve Ballesteros. Included is a chapter on...
I Beat "Ben Hogan" certificate "Carnoustie 1953"
1953: Daily Mail, 1953. Very scarce originally signed certificate by Ben Hogan. The Daily Mail newspaper ran a challenge tournament and anyone beating Hogan's final round of 68 at the 1953 Open won a signed certificate. This is the first time we have handled this scarce item, of huge significance...
1921 Open autographs All competitors!!
St. Andrews: Non, 1921. Every now and again an item comes along with the WOW factor, Fine Golf Books are proud to offer this special collection of all autographs of every competitor to play the June 20-21st qualifiying and hence the Open itself, to date the by far strongest ever...
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