Golf Illustrated No. 1340 & 1401 December 1927 and February 1929
England: Golf Illustrated Ltd., 1927. Interesting articles. many period advertisements. cover. More
New Arrivals
Golf Monthly Volume 38 No. 1 January 1948, No. 3 March 1948 & Vol. 39 No. 1 January 1949
England: Golf Monthly, 1948. 3 issues. Interesting articles. many period advertisements. 1 extra issue included but cover missing. cover of Vol. 39 No. 1 cover missing. More
The 7 Stages of Golf
London: John Ouseley, 1909. Illustrated with 21 color plates by G. E. Shepheard. 13x9, original pictorial boards. First Edition. A fun and rare illustrated humor book providing pictorial accounts of golf's most frustrating moments. D&J S20590; D&M 34620. More
The Humorist on Golf
London: Humorist, 1930. 80p illustrated wrappers. Very Scarce. Colour cover illustration by Lawson Wood of a Scottie dog bringing his old Scottish master a golf ball, the ball the golfers in the background are looking for! Several other balls lay at his feet. An anthology illustrated in the punch style..... More
Golf Sketches
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. D&J I3190. More
Pen and Pencil Sketches on the Game of Golf; after drawings from John Smart
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1888. 40p. Drawings by John Smart. 15.2x12.2 cm. (6x4¾"), original tan front wrapper re-backed with a later paper spine and rear facsimile wrapper. First Edition. A very scarce little book with nice drawings that accompany some humorous golf instruction, under each drawing a famous quote. Extremely scarce..... More
The Seven Ages of Golf
London: Fine Art Society, 1899. [8] + plates. Introduction by Horace Hutchinson. With 7 loose color lithograph plates of a golfer at various stages of his life, wrapped with original tissue-guard. Folio, 16¾x10¾, contents loose in cloth-backed boards portfolio (as issued), pictorial color lithographed cover label. First Edition. The golfer..... More
A Golfer's Gallery by Old Masters
London: Country Life, ca 1920. 19p, text, 19 mounted plates, plus 1 extra. Limited edition No. 64/500 signed by Darwin. The plates, designed to be framed, and very impressive art work they would become, So to find this in its original state, in the rare limited edition and in very..... More
A Batch of Golfing Papers.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent and Co., 1892. 123p, Red decorative cloth edition. More
The P.G.A. Yearbook 1939/40
London: Privately Printed, 1939/40. 124p. wrappers. Only published for PGA members, likely low print run. More
Golfing Curios and "The Like."
London, England: Sherratt and Hughes, 1911. 151p. de luxe quarter vellum. With scarce dust jacket as published. Limited edition of 150 copies. 15s. nett. Rare large-paper edition, published after the trade edition, with new material added. With the list of subscribers in the rear giving the limitation statement: "the list..... More
Homeric Games at an Ancient St. Andrews.
Edinburgh: James Thin, 1911. 158p. cloth. gift dedication from unknown givers and recipients. 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
Green Fairways.
London: Methuen, 1947. 204p, cloth History, twin to Fresh Fairways published in 1949. D&J S33760. More
Pictorial History of Golf
New York: A. S. Barnes, 1974. 282p. Cloth. Revised edition, first 1968. D&J G6790. More
The Epic of Golf.
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 98p. illustrated boards. quarter cloth. Poetry. D&J 7390. More
History of St. Andrews; Epiccopal, Monastic, Academic, and Civil.
Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843. 432p. cloth. Volume 2 only, covers missing, in need of a rebind. More
Golfiana Miscellanea.
London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1887. 300p. original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition. Stewart's purpose in publishing this book was to bring golf literature to the attention of the public, since although Clark's magnificent book had appeared years before, it had been in a limited edition and generally unavailable..... More
Gleneagles " A Plan of The Golf Courses"
Scotland: L.M.S., 1926. Fold-out map by map specialist McCorquodale & C. Glasgow. Gleneagles opened in 1919 and this map was probably completed as both courses King's and Queens opened. The map in the Macleannan book is black and white. Very attractive scarce item. More
Golfing Reminiscences.
London: Mills and Boon, 1924. 254p. Illustrated (59) with plates from photographs, including frontispiece portrait of the author "Auntie Mabel" with her facsimile autograph, original gilt-lettered navy blue cloth. Early references to the ladies open championship. Seldom seen title. D&J S40450. More
Side Lights on Golf
London: Sisley's, ca 1907. 153p. cloth. First Edition. Smith was editor of "Golf Illustrated," the British weekly, for many years and an important contributor to the literature of the game. He wrote three titles solo, plus the monumental The Royal & Ancient Game of Golf Author by Hilton, Harold H...... More
Nouvelle Académie des Jeux contenant un Dictionnaire des jeux anciens, le nouveau jeu de croquet, le besigue chinois et une étude sur les jeux et paris de courses. Description des jeux modernes et des tricheries qui s'y rapportent.
Paris: Garnier frères, 1876. 436p. Illustrated wrappers. 1 volume In12 paperback. Frontispiece engraving and some in-text engravings. Mention of golf. More
The Nineteenth Hole
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. 191p 1/2 cloth marbled boards 1st ed. Turn of the century golfing fiction. llustrated by A. B. Frost, and with color frontispiece portrait from a photograph of the author with tissue-guard. A book of short stories similar to "The Golficide." D&J S42370. More
Green Memories.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1928. 332p. Green cloth. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece portrait of the author. Spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Darwin's first autobiography three more would follow. D&J D5320. More
The Book of Golf and Golfers.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1899. 316p, decorative gilt cloth. Hard to find 1st edition. Important contribution to the golf library, Hutchinson, Hilton, Taylor, Whigham and Messrs Sutton on laying out a course. More