St. Andrews To The Play.
England: Classic Golf Covers, 1994. 8p, wrappers ltd. ed. 300 numbered copies. Virtually the only possibility to see this title less than 5 known copies exist of the original! D&J A1020. More
Humour/Poetry/Fiction
The Secret of Bogey House
London: Methuen, 1934. 252p, cloth. 4th edition. D&J A2470. More
Colonel Bogey's Sketch Book
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1897. 44p. Illustrated boards. Early golfing humour. Andre was a member of West Herts. Golf Club. More
Told at the 19th Hole, Humorous St. Andrews Golf Stories.
St. Andrews: J. & G. Innes. ca 1928. 35p. wrappers. 5th edition. Not recorded in Donovan and Jerris. More
Golf Stories
London: Adam and Charles Black, ca 1914. 131p, cloth. Fiction. n.d. D&J B8170. More
Adventures at Golf.
England: Methuen, 1923. 50p. illustrated boards. Nice copy of a fragile title, contents clean no foxing. Abteman's humour can still be understood and amusing 100 years on. D&J B8350. More
Locker Room Ballads.
New York: D. Appelton and Company, 1923. 76pp. Illustrated with drawings by James Montgomery Flagg, decorative green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Frank Warren, with the compliments of the author, John Baxter" D&J B9190. More
Locker Room Ballards.
New York: D. Appelton and Company, 1923. 76pp. Illustrated with drawings by James Montgomery Flagg, decorative green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt. D&J B9190. More
Odes and Reminiscences
Worcestershire: Grant Books, 2003. 54p, cloth. limited edition number 139/400. More
Odes and Reminiscences "contributors edition"!
Worcestershire: Grant Books, 2003. 54p, cloth. limited edition number 41/60 only, slipcase. Signed by Blyth Bell, David Marsh, Roger Robinson and Bob Grant, plus of course the author. More
Golf: Book of a thousand Chuckles.
Chicago: P.F. Volland, 1916. 200pp enclosed is a original sketch by Briggs, see the previous owners comments "Claire Briggs, the author and artist of this book, was a cousin of my late father in law. The cartoon, which is tucked inside the front cover, along with a photograph of Mr..... More
Keep your Eye on the Ball
London: Collins, 1936. 48p. cloth. Lovely illustrations. More
Putter Perkins
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 126p. decorative cloth, green boards, text black and red. D&J B27160. More
Destiny & Other Poems
St Andrews: Privately printed, 1876. 514p. decorative cloth. First Ediiton. With 7 Calotype (sic) plates by Mr. Rogers and frontispiece of author with facsimile autograph plus many wood-engraved plates. 514 pages. Brick red cloth stamped in black, beveled edges, ruled and lettered in gilt, dark brown endpapers, all edges gilt..... More
What I know about golf
Bournmouth: ND. All the pages are blank!! More
Half Hours with an Old Golfer.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1895. 178 pp. Illustrations throughout by G. A. Laundy, plus 4 chromolithograph plates with tissue-guards, including frontispiece. Previously owned by Edinburgh public library's. Library boards, a few library stamps but still a very good copy completely clean. More
Half Hours with an Old Golfer.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1895. 178p, Illustrations throughout by G. A. Laundy, plus 4 chromolithograph plates with tissue-guards, including frontispiece. Laid in, 4 page advertisement flyer for the book, pre publication reviews, possibily unique and very rare flyer. Book and flyer make a high end addition to any golf..... More
Half Hours with an Old Golfer.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1895. 178p, Illustrations throughout by G. A. Laundy, plus 4 chromolithograph plates with tissue-guards, including frontispiece. D&J C30160. More
Half Hours with an Old Golfer.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1895. 178p. Decorative cloth. Illustrations throughout by G. A. Laundy, plus 4 chromolithograph plates with tissue-guards, including frontispiece. D&J C30160. More
Ye Royal and Antient Game of Golf.
1911. A calendar with golf poems and 6 mounted colour plates by W. Esmond - Lawson Wood and others. String-bound gilt-lettered stiff card wrappers. Remarkable that it has lasted 104 years, hard to obtain, very unusual. More
Drives and Puts.
Boston: L. C. Page and Company, 1899. 243p. Decorative cloth. Frontispiece of a woman golfer by H.C. Ireland, with tissue-guard; woodcut vignette on title page. original pictorial green cloth in an arts and crafts trade binding, depicting a man and woman strolling on a green, holding golf clubs, top edge..... More
About Golf; Almanac and Useful information
London: G. Delgado, 1923. illus. wrapps. Monthly calendar for 1923 with tips on the opposite page.Not listed in D&J. Not Listed. More
Fairways and Foul.
England: Robert Hale Limited, 1969. 192p, wrappers, proof copy. D&J C27790. More
IshyBushy & Topknot
London: Country Life, 1946. 64p. Cloth. Fine condition, Illustrations by Elinor Darwin to accompany verses by Bernard Darwin. Bernard Darwin (1876-1961) was a grandson of Charles Darwin. He was a lawyer by training but not by inclination and moved into journalism, becoming a leading writer on golf, a game which..... More
Mr Tootleoo and Co.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935. 42p. 22 coloured illustrations, paper boards. Very Good condition, we have rerely seen a better copy, pages immaculate. This the third and final of the series written and illustrated by the Darwins. In 1906 he married Irish born artist, Elinor Mary Monsell (1879-1954) and..... More