The Golf Swing The Ernest Jones Method.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1920. 159p cloth. second impression July 1920, first impression April 1920. illustrated. D&J H4930. More
Percy Boomer's Library of Golf
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.
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The Golf Swing The Ernest Jones Method.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1920. 159p cloth. second impression July 1920, first impression April 1920. illustrated. Some pencil under lining by Percy Boomer. D&J H4930. More
Sunningdale Golf Club.
England: The Golf Clubs Association, 1948. 44p Blue wrappers Gold text. Old course, says the handbook has turf comparable with the Old Course of St. Andrews. New course Harry Colt designed. More
The Golfing Swing Simplified and it Mechanism Correctly Explained.
London: Methuen, 1920. 62p, cloth 5th edition enlarged. Previous editions where published in 1915 and earlier with less pages 56. D&J H6310. More
The Golfing Swing Simplified and it Mechanism Correctly Explained.
London: Methuen, 1913. 56p, cloth scarce 1st edition. D&J H6310. More
Dictionary of Sports; or Companion to the Field, The Forest, and the Riverside.
London: Thomas Tegg and Son, 1835. 363p. cloth. An alphabetic list of sports, golf included. More
The Seven Ages of Golf
London: Fine Art Society, 1899. [8] + plates. Introduction by Horace Hutchinson. With 7 loose color lithograph plates of a golfer at various stages of his life, wrapped with original tissue-guard. Folio, 16¾x10¾, contents loose in cloth-backed boards portfolio (as issued), pictorial color lithographed cover label. First Edition. The golfer..... More
The Mystery of Golf.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1912. 249p cloth. Second enlarged edition, first being published in a limited edition in 1908 7¼x4¾, blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Second Edition, Revised and enlarged, second printing. " Murdoch calls this "One of the most entertaining books ever written on the psychology of golf..... More
Golf for Women.
New York: Baker and Taylor, 1904. 217p. illustrated cloth. Includes a chapter by Rhona K. Adair. Illustrations from photographs and drawings including frontispiece portrait of the author. (8vo) original pictorial green cloth stamped in white, gray, gilt and brown, front cover lettered in white, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition..... More
After the Ball, Merry Memoirs of a Golfer.
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1931. 320p. decorative cloth. D&J H12670. More
The Best of Golf.
London: Mills and Boon, 1925. 64p. Cloth. plus ads. cloth. Hardest to find of the four Eleanor Helme golf titles. D&J H12730. More
Henderson's Photographic Golf Instructor
Colombo, Ceylon. (Sri Lanka): Privately Printed, 1922. 120p. cloth. D&J H13690. More
My Golfing Life.; As Told by Clyde Foster
London: Chapman & Hall, 1923. 246p. Cloth. The 1902 Open champions autobiography as told by Clyde Foster. First player to win the Open with a rubber cored ball. Played in the Open until 1939. Very interesting read, and well written by this champion from St. Andrews. More
Ladies Golf.
London: Hutchinson, 1904. 336p decorative cloth. Three Time British Ladies Champion Hezlet (later MRS A.E. Ross) wrote this primarily instruction book. The first to be published in Britain for women. The book focuses on proper instruction, also has sections on rules, etiquette and dress. Companion volume to Taylor's work Taylor..... More
Your First Game of Golf
London: Day & Son, ca1891. 27p, illustrated wrappers. First edition. Chromo-lithographed throughout (full-page and within text) with humorous illustrations by Hillinthorn; lithographed by Emrik & Binger. original chromolithograph wrappers. First Edition. Rare and important golf book as it is likely the first book of golf fiction not written in verse..... More
Modern Golf
New York: MacMillan, 1922. 140p, decorative cloth. Hilton won the 1911 US Amateur Championship, hence his popularity in America. D&J M17710. More
My Golfing Reminiscences
London: James Nisbet, 1907. 247p. cloth. Autobiography of possibly the greatest amateur to play the game, winning two Open titles, four Amateur and a U.S. Amateur title. A small but very strong player who took great detail in addressing the ball. The book was written in the towards the end..... More
The Royal and Ancient Game of Golf
London: Golf Illustrated Ltd, by London & Counties Press, 1912. 276p. Full Red Leather. Profusely illustrated from photographs, drawings, paintings, etc.; 3 color 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
The Royal and Ancient Game of Golf
London: Golf Illustrated Ltd, by London & Counties Press, 1912. 276p. Full Red Leather. Profusely illustrated from photographs, drawings, paintings, etc.; 3 color 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
Five Lessons: the modern Fundamentals of Golf.
United States of America: A.S. Barnes and Co. Inc., 1957. Anthony Ravielli. 127p. Foreword by Sidney L. James. Co-written and with a Preface by Herbert Warren Wind. Illustrated with instructional drawings by Anthony Ravielli. Ultimate Instructional one of the all time classic instructional's, quite fitting that this book became part..... More
Power Golf.
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1948. 166p, cloth. Very Scarce 1st edition, 1st impression. Inscription. Gifted to Percy from his pupil Le Capatains! Christmas. D&J H19990. More
Power Golf.
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1948. 166p, cloth. Very Scarce 1st edition, 1st impression. D&J H19990. More
Collecting Golf Books 1743-1938. Aspects of Book Collecting series
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
A Shropshire Lad
London: The Richards Press, 1947. 95p. cloth. More
How to Improve Your Golf: lessons by British Masters
London: Hutchinson, ca 1925. 88p. cloth. Well illustrated. Dedicated to Harry Vardon "To Harry Vardon, because he was playing in the 1900 American Open Championship, which he won, he entirely missed the ball for a putt of only six inches" Chapters by Arthur Havers, Percy Alliss, Ted Ray, Charles Whitcombe..... More