Item #9676 Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!). Alister Mackenzie.
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Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!)
Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!)
Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!)
Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!)
Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!)
Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!)
Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!)
Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!)
Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!)
Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!)

Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and GreenKeeping (Original Unrecorded variant Jacket and inscription!)

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1920. 135p. cloth illustrated 1st ed. Introduction by Harry S. Colt. Scarce original UNLISTED dust Jacket with the added bonus of a rare inscription by Mackenzie "With the Author's compliments January 1925"

"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 taking advantage of natural features and terrain of the site." (Murdoch). Dr. Mackenzie "is recognized as the most influential golf course architect of the early twentieth century... Mackenzie's reputation was secured with the publication... of his seminal work 'Golf Architecture,' in which he set forth 13 rules for successful design".

The book came from the recently dispersed library of Spetchley Park home of the Berkley family for 400 years, and has probably been sitting undisturbed since its publication.

This version of the jacket is much finer and more flimsy than the more common jacket, very remarkable that for 96 years this version of the jacket has stayed hidden.

Truly unique copy! Near Fine in very good jacket. Item #9676

D&J M2860.

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