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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. 85p. decorative boards. Humourous essays edited by Martin, Grantland Rice amongst others contributed. signed by Percy Boomer. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J M11200. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. 85p. decorative boards. Humourous essays edited by Martin, Grantland Rice amongst others contributed. signed by Percy Boomer. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J M11200. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. 213p. Illustrated with drawings, green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Second of the trilogy, still today, all worth reading and collecting. Signed "Percy Boomer Sunningdale 46" Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J N1660. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1935. 196p, Illustrations by Christopher Millett, green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. First of the triology. Still very readable today. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J N1780. More
Osaka: Bunyudo, 1930. 560p. Illustrations throughout from photos, course maps, facsimiles, portraits, etc. (4to) original white cloth. First Edition. Text in Japanese with some English translations. A very scarce history of golf in Japan, the first copy fine golf books have seen, none appear in recent auction records and OCLC..... More
Edinburgh: Travel Press, ca 1946. 64p. illustrated wrappers. Golf is of course included as a popular activity in North Berwick. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. More
London: Hutchinson, 1933. 254p dec. cloth, illustrated. introduction by Bernard Darwin. 1st IK edition. This is one of the classic Biography's of golf and particularly American history Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J O6370. More
London: The Golf Agency, 1911. 840p. Very early annual. Very hard to locate annual. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. More
London: Privately Printed, 1923/24. 84p. illustrated wrappers. Only published for PGA members, likely low print run. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. More
London: Privately Printed, 1954. 147p. illustrated wrappers. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. More
England: Punch Magazine, ca. 1909. 116 pp. thick card. Illustrated with humorous golf cartoons by various artists, including title page drawing by Phil May. 28.5x21.5 cm. (11x8¾"), green cloth-backed red pictorial boards, lettered in black. First Edition. Often in poor condition due to size and weight of book. Part of..... 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
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
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: 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: 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