The Epic of Golf.
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 98p. illustrated boards. quarter cloth. Near Fine condition, in a very good jacket, obviously kept in the jacket all its life. Poetry. D&J 7390. More
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Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 98p. illustrated boards. quarter cloth. Near Fine condition, in a very good jacket, obviously kept in the jacket all its life. Poetry. D&J 7390. More
London: R.A. Everett, 1904. 127p. Red cloth with black text. Scarce tale, this title rarely comes up and less so in this very good condition. Andre was a member of West Herts. golf club. More
Edinburgh, Scotland. Golf Monthly, 1935. 127.p cloth. limited edition 500 copies only. Tracing the development of the Rules of Golf, beginning with the earliest identified code issued by the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers in 1744, including a reprint of the original texts. Clapcott was one of the game first..... More
Scotland: Williams Blackwood, 1891. 100p. cloth. Introduction by Arthur James Balfour. Frontispiece from a photograph of author. Original red cloth, lettered and stamped in black. First Edition. An important book of reminiscences of golf of the day, particularly in Perth, from where McPherson hailed. McPherson was well known for holding..... More
London: J. S. Virtue and Co., 1897. 331p ad pp. Illustrated from numerous photographs and engravings throughout. 39.6x28.5 cm. (15½x11"), original cream coloured japon wrappers, titled in gilt, custom cream drop-back box. No. 169 of 250 copies. First Edition. The rare limited large paper edition with wider margins. This is..... More
London: Macmillan, 1912. 355p decorative cloth. Very scarce. Presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper. Vaile was a prolific contributor to the literature of golf. All of his books are books of instruction with emphasis on the way to cut scores by saving strokes around the green. D&M..... More
Daily Mail in support of the Golf Foundation, 1952. Very scarce originally signed certificate signed by Bobby locke. The Daily Mail newspaper ran a challenge tournament and anyone beating Locke's final round of 68 at the 1952 Open won a signed certificate. This is the first time we have handled..... More
Edinburgh, Scotland: John Menzies & Co., 1884. 70 pp. Frontispiece drawing, and others within. 18x12.2 cm. (7¼x4¾") cloth-backed pictorial boards. Third Edition. The first golf book to be successful in sales. Forgan founded a famous club-making firm in St Andrews and his old shop is still open as a museum..... More
London: Country Life, 1919. 229p. cloth plus ads. Hutchinson's Autobiography of a very full and fascinating life in golf's early days. Hutchinson contested the first three Amateur Championship finals and the 1903 event winning two, the 1886 and 1887. He left a huge contribution to the literal world, with subjects..... More
1953: Daily Mail, 1953. Very scarce originally signed certificate by Ben Hogan. The Daily Mail newspaper ran a challenge tournament and anyone beating Hogan's final round of 68 at the 1953 Open won a signed certificate. This is the first time we have handled this scarce item, of huge significance..... More
Scotland: Williams Blackwood, 1891. 100p. cloth. Introduction by Arthur James Balfour. Frontispiece from a photograph of author. Original red cloth, lettered and stamped in black. Custom leather slipcase. First Edition. An important book of reminiscences of golf of the day, particularly in Perth, from where McPherson hailed. McPherson was well..... More
New York: Laurence Gomme, 1929. 12p. boards. Very scarce instructional breaking down one of the leading instructor's theory of the time, Ernest Jones. D&J T8080. More
London: Constable, 1938. 56p. cloth. 1st edition, dust wrapper. The first attempt to collate the early golfing literature. Hopkinson was a London book dealer who became the foremost authority of golf books during the first half of the 20th century. Very clean copy of a hard to find book, especially..... More
Royal Birkdale Golf Club: P.G.A., 1965. Hard to find programme, fully signed by every players to their respective photographs. More
London: J.M. Dent, 1901. 252pp leather cloth and vellum. ltd ed. 45/150 Illustrated with 8 chromolithograph plates; photogravure frontispiece (with color) of "Cock on the Green" from John Kay's classic etching; with tissue guards; decorative head and tail pieces and endpapers by Arthur Rackham. 23x14.5 cm. (9x5¾"), publisher's gilt-lettered pictorial..... More
Cupar, Scotland: John Innes, 1881. 83, [1] + [6] ad pp. Illustrated with 4 engraved plates; plus figure drawings within text. 7x4¾, publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial printed gray paper over boards. First Edition. The first golf book to be successful in sales. Forgan founded a famous club-making firm in St..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, ca1912. 187p, cloth. 1st edition 1912, very hard to find, Dust Jacket rare. Vardon's best selling book. D&J V3010. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. 236p cloth. Introduction by Bernard Darwin. Autobiography of Taylor's career. One of very few war time publication's. This is a must read book for anyone interested in the development of golf from its early days, Taylor began his golfing career as caddie to Horace Hutchinson at..... More
Garden City, New York. Doubleday and Company Inc., 1976. 255p, decorative cloth. Augusta and The Masters, the brain child of Bobby Jones and Clifford Robert's. Designed by Alister J. MacKenzie, ranked today as one of the best all time golf architects. Classic title, with the added addition of a Clifford..... More
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887. 186p. quarter leather cloth. One of the all time classic books in the whole Golf Library. Upon finishing the book he showed it to his friend Robert Louis Stevenson for him to improve it, but was told there was nothing that he could improve, it was..... More
St. Andrews: McCorquodale & Co., ca 1924. The map surveyed and depicted by Alister MacKenzie in 1924. Coloured lithograph by McCorquodale & Co. Limited of Glasgow & London, this being an early version of this famous map, often later reproduced to a lesse quality. Legend of the length of holes..... More
Muirfield: R & A, 1935. Early Official Open programme for Friday the final day, won by Alfred Perry, great programme. According to the Gilchrist and Emerson reference book there is a record of every Open programme from 1921 onwards. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. More
London: Golf Illustrated Ltd, by London & Counties Press, 1912. 276p. Full Red Leather. Profusely illustrated from photographs, drawings, paintings, etc.; 3 colour plates and 2 photogravures. (4to) 12¼x9¾", original full red pebbled calf, gilt-tooled pictorial lion emblem lettered "Far & Sure" on front cover, lettered in gilt, all edges..... More
Edinburgh, Scotland. Golf Monthly, 1935. 127p cloth. limited edition 500 copies only. Tracing the development of the Rules of Golf, beginning with the earliest identified code issued by the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers in 1744, including a reprint of the original texts. Clapcott was one of the game first..... More
Edinburgh, Scotland: John Menzies & Co., 1897. 84p. Frontispiece drawing, and others within. 18x12.2 cm. (7¼x4¾") cloth-backed pictorial boards. 6th Edition. The first golf book to be successful in sales. Forgan founded a famous club-making firm in St Andrews and his old shop is still open as a museum for..... More