South Queensferry: Donald Ford Images, 2015. 88p. oblong decorative cloth. Superb photography. First Edition. Signed by Author. 88 pages and 88 images as the books title says, Seaside golf, what a bucket list this book makes, enjoyable every single time, flicking through many hidden and unknown course brought to life..... More
Scotland: Donald Ford Images, 2010. 136p. oblong decorative cloth. Superb photography. First Edition. Signed by Author. Every Open course and a narrative of each and every Open from 1860 Prestwick through 2010 St. Andrews. Good reference, and the wonderful photography of the author to boot. A beautiful presentation. More
Scotland: Donald Ford Images, 2010. NEEDS EDITING 136p. oblong decorative cloth. Superb photography. First Edition. Signed by Author. Every Open course and a narrative of each and every Open from 1860 Prestwick through 2010 St. Andrews. Good reference, and the wonderful photography of the author to boot. A beautiful presentation..... More
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..... 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
England: E & F.N. SPON, 1985. 212pp Foreword by Henry Cotton. Illustrated boards. Hard to find and important architecture title. D&J H10270. More
Ashford Manor: non, 1913. Rare signed Harold H. Hilton letter to the renowed architect A.W. Tillinghast and superbly inscribed (10/10), on Ashford Manor Golf Club stationary. Hilton was the secretary of Ashford Manor. Hilton quiet possibily took advice in golf design from Tillinghast. Harold Horsfall Hilton (12 January 1869 –..... More
New York: Charles Scribner´s and Sons, 1926. 163p decorative cloth. Illustrated with 46 plates from over 50 photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard; plus several golf course drawings; decorative endpapers with Dr. MacKenzie's St. Andrews golf course illustration. 8¾x6¼", original decorative green cloth with the first and eighteenth flag holes stamped..... More
New York: Charles Scribner´s and Sons, 1926. 163p dec. cloth. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard; plus golf course drawings; decorative end papers with Dr. MacKenzie's St. Andrews golf course illustration present. Scarce Jacket. D&J H27280. More
New York: Sleeping Bear Press, 1926. 163p, cloth. Later printing, facsimile edition. no date but we think ca 1999 Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard; plus golf course drawings; decorative end papers with Dr. MacKenzie's St. Andrews golf course illustration present. Very scarce and important in..... More
New York: Flagstickbooks, 1926/1998. 163p, cloth. Later printing, facsimile edition from 1998 Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard; plus golf course drawings; decorative end papers with Dr. MacKenzie's St. Andrews golf course illustration present. Very scarce and important in its original edition, equally important and becoming..... More
London: J. S. Virtue and Co., 1897. 2], viii, 331 + v 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. 75 of 250 copies. First Edition. The rare limited large paper edition with..... More
London: J. S. Virtue and Co., 1897. Hutchinson, Horace G. (editor) British Golf Links: A Short Account of the Leading Golf Links of the United Kingdom with Numerous Illustrations and Portraits. London, J.S. Virtue & Co. 1897 viii, 331 + v ad pp. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Illustrated with numerous..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1890. xvi, 495 pp. 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. Ltd, 1890. 463p dec. cloth. Second edition. Illustrated with several plates from paintings, photographs, engravings, etc., including frontispiece with tissue-guard; plus numerous wood engravings within the text. original decorative brown cloth, lettered in black and white, gilt-stamped vignette and additional gilt lettering on spine. Part..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1890. 463p dec. cloth. Second edition. Illustrated with several plates from paintings, photographs, engravings, etc., including frontispiece with tissue-guard; plus numerous wood engravings within the text. original decorative brown cloth, lettered in black and white, gilt-stamped vignette and additional gilt lettering on spine. Part..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1890. 463p decorative cloth. First edition. Illustrated with several plates from paintings, photographs, engravings, etc., including frontispiece with tissue-guard; plus numerous wood engravings within the text. original decorative brown cloth, lettered in black and white, gilt-stamped vignette and additional gilt lettering on spine. Part..... 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. Ltd, 1899. 316p, decorative gilt cloth. Hard to find 1st edition. Important contribution to the golf library, Hutchinson, Hilton, Taylor, Whigham and Messrs Sutton on laying out a course. More
London: Country Life, 1906. 219p. red cloth. edited by Hutchinson, contributors include Harry Colt, Herbert Fowler, Harold hilton, Peter Lees, James Braid... One of the golfing classics. D&J H28360. More
London: Country Life, 1906. 219p. red cloth. edited by Hutchinson, contributors include Harry Colt, Herbert Fowler, Harold hilton, Peter Lees, James Braid... One of the golfing classics. Must for any golf architecture library. Some notes and underlining from Percy Boomer. More
Atlanta, Georgia: Privately Printed, 1978. 40p, decorative cloth. Famed creation of the two Jones's, Tobert T. (Bobby) Jones Jr. and Robert Trent Jones. created close to Atlanta in a similar vein as Augusta, almost became home of the Masters. Chapters by Bobby Jones, Robert Trent Jones, O.B. Keeler make this..... More
New York: Galahad, 1982. 294p cloth. Memories and recollections over Jones very long life. More
Brompton, London: Bison Books, 1988. 191p. cloth DW. D&J K6970. More
New Zealand: New Zealand Institute for Turf Culture, 1949. 100p. Five Chapters, # 1Theory and practice Underlying the establishment and Maintenance of greens. # 2 Care and maintenance of the turf of a Golf course. # 3 Golf architecture. # 4 Golf Course Construction. # 5 appendix. Front/rear wrapper a...... More
