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 on the art of greenkeeping, I shall endeavor to set forth a plain treatise which is the outcome of my own personal experience, together with the study and general observations regarding results of various methods in greenkeeping, on both seaside and inland golf courses, all of which were possessed of some little peculiarities worth finding out." Only two offerings found in auction records, which were both for the Murdoch copy offered through PBA Galleries in 1998 ($1300) and again in 2007 ($3,750). good copy, some pencil underlinnig, not distracting from the text. Item #4859
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