A Secret of St Andrews
Cupar: J & G Innes, 1923. 251p. Illustrated wrappers. Novel around the town of St Andrews. Full page advertisement from Auchterlonie's to rear wrapper. Exceptional condition of a scarce title. More
Cupar: J & G Innes, 1923. 251p. Illustrated wrappers. Novel around the town of St Andrews. Full page advertisement from Auchterlonie's to rear wrapper. Exceptional condition of a scarce title. More
England: Souvernir Press, 1984. 223p. Cloth. Dust jacket. Darwin raised the level of sports writing into true literature. More
London: Souvenir Press, 1986. 240p, cloth. A selection of 50 pieces drawn from Darwin's published collections, reflecting the warm friendliness of golf that so delighted him, and the sheer enjoyment of the game that shone through all he wrote. Darwin raised the level of sports writing into true literature. Classic..... More
New York: Scribners, 1922. 87p. Boards. More
London: Heath Cranton, 1920. 89p. cloth. Entertaining essays. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1932. 336p. Green cloth, blue flag pole vignette on front cover, spine lettered in blue, Another superb collection of Darwin's columns and articles that had previously appeared elsewhere. D&J D6040; Good, slight cloth fade. More
London: Stanley Paul, 1981. 256p, cloth 1st edition. Dust wrapper. Illustrated by John Hassall. Peter Dobereiner studied law at Oxford before following a career in golf writer. His reputation was formed principally as golf correspondent for the Guardian and Observer, but he also contributed regularly to Golf World (UK) and..... More
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1936. 124p. cloth. Foreword by Henry Cotton. Scarce fictional love story, all revolving around the Open Championship played at St Andrews over the Old Course. More
New York: Sterling, 1977. 192p, cloth 1st edition. Originally published in Great Britain as "Stroke, Hole or Match?". Peter Dobereiner studied law at Oxford before following a career in golf writer. His reputation was formed principally as golf correspondent for the Guardian and Observer, but he also contributed regularly to..... More
Texas: Dormy House Press, 2013. 391p. Half Leather. Limited subscribers edition about 200 copies only. Compiled by Dick Verinder. Foreword Jeff Silverman. Dedicated to David Normoyle. 1930's Times articles, all never otherwise published, this period in Darwins career saw a shift from just reporting about golf tournaments to writing essays..... More
London: Little Brown, 2002. 259p. cloth. Scarce 1st impression United Kingdom. Golf's first superstar went up against a green 20-year-old amateur. It was the birth of modern golf. Harry Vardon and Francis Ouimet came from different worlds and different generations, but their passion for golf set them on parallel paths..... More
England: Faber and Faber, 1970. 140p, cloth 1st edition. reprinted 1970. Leo Newman illustrated dust wrapper. Book looks like it has just come from the printers. Peter Dobereiner studied law at Oxford before following a career in golf writer. His reputation was formed principally as golf correspondent for the Guardian..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1934. 246p, cloth edition. Second instalment of a trio of classic essays, published between 1932 and 1936 Out of the Rough and Rubs of the Green, being the others. D&J D6100. More
London: Methuen & Co., 1931. 246p cloth. Following his co-authorship (text) with T Simpson on The Architectual Side of Golf (1929), Wethered issued this volume of essays to expand his views on the ideal relationships between player, club, style, shot, tempeament, course and architect as a basis for examining the..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1936. 260p, cloth. Fine Essays, Final instalment of a trio of classic essays, published between 1932 and 1936 Out of the Rough and Playing the Like being the others. D&J D6730. More
London: P.R.M. publishers Limited, 1962. 101p. cloth. Surprisingly hard to find title.A mixture of golfing essays. More
London: Arthur Barker, 1939. 246p. Cloth. Decorative cloth. Foreword by John Beck. Contributions from the world of golf, including Bernard Darwin, Lady Heathcoat-Amory (Joyce Wethered), Henry Longhurst, Guy C. Campbell, C.J.H. Tolley.... great book, very often underrated. Scarce and very good Dust jacket slight chips only. D&J M36160. More
Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1895. 68p. cloth. Twenty golf poems. First edition in variant binding. Donovan & Murdoch # 4400 as well as Donovan & Jerris # S37240 list this title as being 16 cm. in height (See Antiquarian Golf inventory Number 202123). The volume listed here is 17.5 cm..... More
Texas: Dormy House Press, 2016. 430p. Half Leather. Limited subscribers edition about 120 copies only. Compiled by Dick Verinder. Foreword David Normoyle. Delightful anthology of no particular theme (as in Dick's other anthology's), but non the less worse for it, hours ofplease are ahead of the nextfortunate owner of this..... More
London: Oliver and Boyd, 1946. 196pp. cloth. Very underrated Scottish Journalist, spending his career with "The Scotsman". A well-respected analyst of the game. In Golfer's Gallery he writes about the twenty Open Championships and twenty Amateur Championships he witnessed between the two world wars, as well as Ryder, Walker and..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900. 114p. Cloth. 6¼x4¼, coarse tan-yellow cloth, green-stamped vignette on front and rear covers, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Fitzpatrick was the first golf reporter in America; he covered the very first tournament, held in 1894, for the New York Sun. Part..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1929. 302p. Cloth. Introduction by Grantland Rice. Illustrated with "McDuffer" cartoons. (8vo) cloth, First Edition. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J E8800. More
U.S.A. The Mohawk Press, 1931. 90p, cloth. New golf game idea, we do not think it took off. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. D&J S23440. More
Edinburgh: J. & J. Gray, 1925. 140 pp. Illustrated with 4 plates from paintings and facsimiles. 7¼x4¾, gilt-lettered blue cloth. First Edition. " According to Murdoch, "Mr. Reid was one of the very first writers who specialized in golf reporting and his recollections are interesting and informative." Very hard to..... More
New York: Scribners, 1922. 87p. Boards. Part of the Percy Boomer golf library. More