London: George Bell and Sons, 1895. 58p. decorative cloth. Third edition. First 1889, second 1892. illustrated with four photographs of "Old Tom" Morris, and an image of Tom to the front board. Author was the founder and Captain of the Cambridge University Golf Club and a personal friend of Old..... More

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

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

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. Part..... More

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent and Co., 1892. 123p, Red decorative cloth edition. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. More

St. Andrews: Henderson & Son University Press Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, 1919. 129p. Cloth. Extremely early and important title, only the 3rd edition of the decisions. An important work on the rules of golf. Contributions from 309 clubs, sending questions to the R&A rule committee, published..... More

London: George Bell and Sons, 1895. 58p. decorative cloth. Third edition. First 1889, second 1892. illustrated with four photographs of "Old Tom" Morris. Author was the founder and Captain of the Cambridge University Golf Club and a personal friend of Old Tom. Brevity is common in these early golf volumes..... More

Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 98p. illustrated boards. quarter cloth. Poetry. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J 7390. More

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 Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. More

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

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." Part of the Percy..... More

London: John Murray, 1930. 335p. Green cloth. Rare golf detective novel by "one of the foundation writers of golf literature...Of his nearly twenty mysteries, the author wrote only one known to contain anything regarding golf" -Taylor. Murdoch writes "Mr. Hutchinson deserves more than just a few words for himself because..... More

Sydney, Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1906. 259p. cloth, illustrated. The first Australian golf book of any substance. Daniel Gordon (Dan) Soutar was born in Carmyllie, Scotland in 1882. 'In 1888, his family moved to the nearby seaside resort town of Carnoustie where - over the next 15 or so years..... More