Driving - Approaching - Putting.
London: Methuen, 1926. 47p, illustrated boards. 4th edition of this book, went into many printings. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J R3160. More
Percy Boomer is synonyms with his revolutionary classic "On Learning Golf" published in 1942, and recognised by the great players Hogan, Player, Watson...
On Learning Golf , was one of the most influential books of the 20th century, Boomer being voted number one golf swing guru of all time by Sports Illustrated in 2005.
How did he gain this knowledge? Leading golf instrutor, Dutch, Swiss and Belgian National Open Champion, advanced agronomist, architecture... what else made this man a visionary! see more, Percy H. Boomer
Now for the first time the Boomer golf library, 30 plus years in the building, hidden away for 73 years, the library is available, to view, admire and purchase....
Everybook has an 'Ex-libris Percy Boomer' bookplate containg the three signatures of Percy's grandchildren, this serves as definitive provenance.
London: Methuen, 1926. 47p, illustrated boards. 4th edition of this book, went into many printings. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J R3160. More
London: Methuen, 1922. 55p. + 8 p. Pictorial Boards.. Indexed One of the most attractive aspects of this volume is the picture affixed to the cover of Ted Ray's set of golf clubs, leaning one by one against a wall. Typically, the cover photograph is some combination of scratched, soiled..... More
London: Reynolds-Ball's Guides, 1911. 240p. cloth. 12 black and white photographic illustrations. Unusual virtually hidden folding map inserted inside rear cover. First chapter of 30 pages covers golf. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. More
New York: American Sports Publishing, 1931. 230p. illustrated wrappers. Important volume, Bobby Jones cover with all four trophies, a feat never yet matched. The book was originally printed with the rear cover becoming the outside covers of a 1931 Rule book, this copy comes in its original format with the..... More
New York: American Sports Publishing, 1932. 151p. illustrated wrappers. Important volume, Bobby Jones cover with content from the golf instruction series done by Warner Bros. The book was originally printed with the rear cover becoming the outside covers of a 1932 Rule book, this copy comes in its original format..... More
Dublin: Monument Press, 1939. 290p. illustrated wrappers. Short lived annual, this being the only year of publication. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J R14650. More
Paris: Privately printed, 1939. 90p. no covers. Club year book, club rules and membership list, written in French. More
London: Methuen, 1922. 120p, cloth. Early Psychology. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J S6670. More
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 98p. illustrated boards. quarter cloth. Poetry. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J 7390. More
Glasgow: Jackson, Son & Co., 1938. 144p. Introduction by Bernard Darwin. Illustrated from photographs and drawings, including frontispiece, and with 5 large folding plans of the links and grounds in the back. 25x18.3 cm. (10x7½"), gilt-lettered red cloth, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. First Edition. History of the famed..... More
Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, ca 1905. 123p. illustrated wrappers. Fiction, very attractive title. An imaginative assemblage of essays, poems and anecdotes about golf in the early 1900s, full of sportsmanship and humour. Contains "To Mr. Walter Travis, Amateur Champion, 1904", complimenting the first non-Brit to win the Amateur, with the American..... More
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887. 186p. quarter leather cloth. Presented and inscribed by H.R.H. Duke of Windsor Edward and Mrs Wallis Windsor nee Simpson, to Percy Boomer Christmas 1938. Additionaly the book was owned by A.J. Balfour and has his stamp and dated 1887. Notes from bookseller Stobardt to Buckingham Palace..... 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
London: Privately for the Author, 1909. 167p, cloth with gilt. Limited edition No. 10/150 copies only. Golf was played on the Aberdeen coast as long ago as the 15th century, and this book is as much about the first references to golf in Aberdeen as the Golf Club. Most important..... More
London: A.D. Innes and Company, 1898. 330p. Plus ads. Decorative Cloth Published by the Isthmian Library. Comparable in content to the Badminton Library, but harder to find as this was only printed in a first edition. Chapters, include, Golf-Its Origin and nature, St. Andrews, Prestwick, Caddies, Links of East Lothian..... More
London: Hutchinson and Company, 1905. 346p, cloth and gilt text. Early golf novel. More
London: Spotlight Golf, ca 1930. 6p. illustrated wrappers. Promotion booklet for Spotlight Golf an indoor game devised for small spaces, at home on a ship, in school... endorsed by Alf Padgham and Charles Whitcombe. More
Paris: 1994. More
London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1887. 300p. original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition. Stewart's purpose in publishing this book was to bring golf literature to the attention of the public, since although Clark's magnificent book had appeared years before, it had been in a limited edition and generally unavailable..... More
London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1887. 300p. original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition. Stewart's purpose in publishing this book was to bring golf literature to the attention of the public, since although Clark's magnificent book had appeared years before, it had been in a limited edition and generally unavailable..... More
London: Frederick Warner and Co., 1942. 224p. cloth. water stained, important part of Boomers agronomy library. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. More
London: Mills and Boon, 1924. 254p. Illustrated (59) with plates from photographs, including frontispiece portrait of the author "Auntie Mabel" with her facsimile autograph, original gilt-lettered navy blue cloth. Early references to the ladies open championship. Seldom seen title. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J S40450. More
London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. 228p cloth 1st ed. Turn of the century golfing fiction. But significantly the first book of American golf fiction, this edition being published in the United Kingdom though, illustrated with plates from paintings by various artists. original green cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine..... More
London: W. H. Smith & Son, 1912. 212p. cloth Contributors include Sir George Riddell, Bernard Darwin, Martin Sutton, Harry S. Colt, and A.D. Hall. Harry Colt's first major contributions to golf architecture literature, Darwin writes on how course influence style of play. One page hand written notes from Percy Boomer..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1905. 328p. Illustrated with 48 plates from photographs specially taken for this work, including frontispiece with "Taylor's Grip." original gilt-decorated green cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Classic title, instruction, autobiography, course upkeep, ladies golf, club directory, championship courses are just some of the subjects covered in..... More