Designing, Expanding and Renovating Golf Courses.
Jupiter, FL: NGF, ND. 3 6 to 8 page essays, covering golf course design. More
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The Book of the Lawn
London: Cassell and Company, 1931. 151p. cloth. Good condition in a very hard to find and eye catching dust Jacket. Complete information on planting & maintaining grass surfaces including putting greens. Harder to find 1st edition. More
The Links.
New York: Flagstickbooks, 1926/1998. 163p, cloth. Later printing, facsimile edition from 1998 Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard; plus golf course drawings; decorative end papers with Dr. MacKenzie's St. Andrews golf course illustration present. Very scarce and important in its original edition, equally important and becoming hard..... More
The Golf Courses of the British Isles.
London: Duckworth, ca. 1910. 254p, dec. cloth. Illustrated with plates (mostly in color) from paintings by Harry Rountree; printed tissue-guards, original green cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, First Edition. Darwin's famous book covering the courses of Scotland, England and Ireland. The illustrations, from original water colour's..... More
Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1920. 1st ed. 135p cloth illustrated. Introduction by H.S. Colt. "Four short essays" on course design by one of the first great course architects and one of the first to recognise that a course could be created by taking advantage of natural features and terrain..... More
St Andrews The Road War Papers (U.S.G.A. Herbert Warren Wind Award 2020, WINNER!)
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
Golf Architecture in America.
Los Angeles: The Times Mirror Press, 1927. 342p, illustrated cloth. Illustrated with numerous plates from photos and golf course plans and maps (1 is folding in the rear), 4 photos are in color including frontispiece; decorative endpapers. 8¾x6, dark blue-green cloth, lettered in light green, orange stamped vignette on the..... More
Lawns for Sport.
London: Simpkin, Marchall, Hamilton and Kent Co. Golf Monthly, 1924. 276p. cloth. Good condition in a very hard to find and eye catching dust Jacket of The Turnberry Hotel and course. Chapters on The Upkeep of Putting greens, Bunkers, Tees, with drawings and contributions from Tim Simpson. More
Golf (from the Badminton Library series)
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1890. xvi, 495 pp. 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, black..... More
Golfers Guide for the United Kingdom Volume II 1895
Edinburgh, Scotland: W.H. White and Co,. Edinburgh, 1895. 304p, decorative cloth. Only published 1894 to 1899. Hardest edition of the six to find, the most impressive of all the annuals published. Title of the annuals changed after 1894 to Golfer's Guide for the United Kingdom, and in 1898 and 99..... More
The Game of Golf.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1896. 277p. Illustrated with numerous plates from photographs and wood engravings; plus wood-engraved figures within the text. 7½x5½, original decorative green cloth, front cover illustration stamped in black, white and terra-cotta, spine lettered in gilt, original black end papers, edges untrimmed. First Edition. A...... More
The Links
New York: Charles Scribner´s and Sons, 1926. 163p dec. cloth. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard; plus golf course drawings; decorative end papers with Dr. MacKenzie's St. Andrews golf course illustration present. Scarce Jacket, small chip and loss of the to top of spine, otherwise front..... More
The Book of the Links.
London: W. H. Smith & Son, 1912. 212p. cloth Contributors include Sir George Riddell, Bernard Darwin, Martin Sutton, Harry S. Colt, and A.D. Hall. Harry Colt's first major contributions to golf architecture literature, Darwin writes on how course influence style of play. D&J S42550. More
The Golf Course
London: The Ellesbourgh Press, 1984. 320p. Leather, slipcase. limited edition of 200 copies only. Early chapters cover the history of Golf Course design, then onto a biographical profile of all known architects, this has been updated and is now The Architects of Golf, a pioneering book and cornerstone to any golf..... More
The Architectural Side of Golf.
London, England: Longmans, Green. 1929. 211p.+ plates. Cloth cream boards. Preface by J.C. Squire. Illustrated by the authors: 43 numbered plates, mostly course plans (22 of which are in colour); plus other illustrations including engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard, wood engravings and drawings within text, head and tail-pieces. 1 Classic book of..... More
British Golf Links, a short account of the leading golf links of the United Kingdom
London: J. S. Virtue and Co., 1897. 331p. decorative 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
Some Essays on Golf-Course Architecture.
London: Country Life, 1920. 64p. Cloth. Contributions by Dr. A. MacKenzie, Horace G. Hutchinson, John L. Low, and others. Published in the same year as MacKenzies Golf Architecture, these two books have become standard cornerstone books to and golf course architects library. Some Essays is seen less than the MacKenzie, this..... More
Some Yorkshire Golf Courses
Leeds: Apsley Press, 1935. 132p, Illustrated cloth. Scarce dust Jacket, first time we have seen this in almost 30 years. Nicely autographed and signed by the author. From photographs and with small course maps. More than forty illustrations, the majority full page photographs, some drawn illustrations and course maps, with one fold-out..... More
Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Jacket and inscription!)
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1920. 135p. cloth illustrated 1st ed. Introduction by Harry S. Colt. Scarce original dust Jacket in superb condition! "Four short essays on course design by one of the first great course architects and one of the first to recognize that a course could be created by..... More
A Round of Golf Courses.
London: Evans, 1951. 159p, cloth. Foreword by Darwin. Selection of the authors best 18 courses. D&J D14350. More
Golfers Guide for the United Kingdom Volume I 1894
Scotland: W.H. White and Co,. Edinburgh, 1894. 208p,. decorative cloth. Only published 1894 to 1899. Hard edition to find, the most impressive of all the annuals published. Murdoch. This is the scarce first volume in an annually published series. Title of the annuals changed after 1894 to Golfer's Guide for..... More
Rough Meditations
Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 1997. 220p, cloth. Architectual essays, from former part time caddie and now architecture editor for golf week. Positives reviews from Crenshaw, Jacobson, Palmer. D&K K7600. More
Design for Golf.
Norwich, England: Spotsman Bookclub, 1952. 203p,. cloth. reprint of the 1929 Classic The Architectural Side of Golf. Scarce green dust jacket. D&J W10360. More
Experience Royal Dornoch.
Cleveland: Personal Navigation System Limited, 2005. 106p, cloth. Ultimate hole to hole guide of this wonderful course. More
Alister MacKenzie's Augusta Greens In Collaboration with Mr. Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. Dated 1933
Unired Stare of America: Privately Published, 2013. 20p, wrappers. Limited edition of just 100 copies of this very rare book produced for only Jones and MacKenzie in 1933. More