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London: B.T. Batsford, 1957. 240p. Cloth. Dust jacket. Full golf chapters, all aspects covered. More
London: B.T. Batsford, 1957. 240p. Cloth. Dust jacket. Full golf chapters, all aspects covered. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. 212p. cloth. Dust jacket, golf mentioned. More
London: Crosby Lockwood and Sons, 1949. 315p. cloth, advertisment pages approximately 20 pages. Revised and enlarged edition. More
London: W.H. & L. Collingridge Ltd., 1947. 103p. Cloth. Dust jacket, chipped to inside front section. More
Privately printed, 1958. 16p illustrated wrappers. Great Scottish West coast course. Recently been upgraded, this accurately records the course in the 1950's, as always very well written by Longhurst. More
England: Grant, 1995. 211p. cloth. Limited edition 230 of 565 total. Good facsimile edition of the 1929. Probably the best of all the greaet 1920's golf course architecture books, superb illustrations by Simpson. "The only way to lear golf course architecture is to study the Old Course" Simpson. More
Droitwich, England: Grant Books. 1995. 211p. leather, slipcase. 33 of 65 The Knightshayes Court edition. Preface by J.C. Squire. Foreword by Arthur Hills. Illustrated by the authors with golf course sketches and maps, some of which are in color. 24x18 cm. (9¼x7"), pictorially stamped and lettered full red morocco with..... 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
London: Duckworth, ca. 1910. 254p, dec. cloth. Illustrated with plates (mostly in color) from paintings by Harry Rountree; printed tissue-guards, original green cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, First Edition. Darwin's famous book covering the courses of Scotland, England and Ireland. The illustrations, from original water..... More
Short Hills, New Jersey, U.S.A. Lyons & Burford Books, 1992. 242p, cloth. Insightful title, early in the fine career of Tom Doak. First edition, ninth printing. D&J D15460. More
United States of America: Edgeworth, 1998. 311p, decorative cloth. Impressive coffe table style work, golfs elite clubs and their members, stunning photography, a picture really does tell a thousand words. D&J D 10420. More
Oxford, England. Cambuc Archive: Woodstock, 1991. 214p. Cloth. Foreword by Sir Denis Thatcher. Illustrated from photographs and maps throughout. Green boards, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial jacket. One of 1000 copies 803/1000. First Edition. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Biographical study of Henry Shapeland Colt (1869-1951) and..... More
London: I.C.I., 1933. 23p. wrappers. Turf improvement pamphlet, from the chemical giants ICI. More
Dundee, Scotland: Simmath Press, ca 1930. 28p. white wrappers. Golf course guide, course descriptions Alloa, Dollar Tillicoultry and Alva, photographs. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1904. 277p. cloth. 6th edition 1904, first 1896 Illustrated with numerous plates from photographs and wood engravings; plus wood-engraved figures within the text. 7½x5½, original decorative green cloth, front cover illustration stamped in black, white and terracotta, spine lettered in gilt, original black end..... More
United Kingdom: Latham, 2013. Richard Latham, classic set! Royal Liverpool, Hoylake Royal County Down Muirfield Individually each book is £99.00 together £229.00 Royal Liverpool 160p. Illustrated cloth. Foreword, Mr Peter Dawson Secretary of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews. Into. plus 3 parts and 2 Appendix's. History..... More
Pearl River, NY: Classics of Golf, 2005. 370p. decorative simulated leather. ltd. ed. 879/3000 slipcase. Modern classic. This is the special limited edition issued with a slipcase. A.W. Tillinghast was one of the greatest golf course designers to ever live having designed Bethpage Black, Baltusrol, Winged Foot, Somerset Hills and..... More
New York: Ailsa Inc., 1985. 340p. Red Cloth. Foreword by Herbert Warren Wind. Classics of golf series. MacDonald father of American golf, first U.S. Amateur Champion. influential in creating the U.S.G.A. renowned architect, one of the classic titles in the golf library. D&J M1720. More
Dundee, Scotland: Simmath Press, 1928. Golf course guide, course descriptions, photographs. Variant binding in Maroon, normally blue. More
New York: Charles Schribner, 1928. 340p. Red Cloth. MacDonald father of American golf, first U.S. Amateur Champion. influential in creating the U.S.G.A. renowned architect, one of the classic titles in the golf library. Superb copy, no foxing very clean. D&J M1720. More
United Kingdom: Privately Printed, 2016. 97p, wrappers. Revised 2nd edition. Page long description of each MacKenzie course to be found in the UK, some hidden gems, Halifax GC, Skipton GC, Ilkley GC.... Hard to locate, important reference. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1896. 277p. cloth. First edition 1896 Illustrated with numerous plates from photographs and wood engravings; plus wood-engraved figures within the text. 7½x5½, original decorative green cloth, front cover illustration stamped in black, white and terra-cotta, spine lettered in gilt, original black end papers, edges..... More
London: Country Life, 1920. 64p. Cloth. Contributions by Dr. A. MacKenzie, Horace G. Hutchinson, John L. Low, and others. Published in the same year as MacKenzies Golf Architecture, these two books have become standard cornerstone books to and golf course architects library. 'Some Essays' is less common than the MacKenzie's..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1890. 495p. Quarter leather. Contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, A.J. Balfour, Andrew Lang, H.S.C. Everard, etc. Illustrated with numerous drawings by Thomas Hodge and Harry Furniss, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. 9½x7½, original ½ blue morocco & gilt-stamped orange cloth, gilt-lettered spine, black..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1891. 201p. Illustrated cloth. The first book to ever profile golf courses, very revolutionary at the time and no doubt a contributor to the golf boom of the 1890's. Followed 6 years later with the magnnus opus of book by Hutchinson the British Golf Links..... More