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Item Details
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| Author: |
Simpson, Sir W[alter] G[rindley] |
| Title: |
The Art of Golf |
| Place: |
Edinburgh |
| Publisher: |
David Douglas |
| Date: |
1892 |
| Item # : |
114448 |
| Offered by: |
PBA Galleries
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| End Date |
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03/11/2002 19:00:00 CST |
| Price realized |
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$ 225 |
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Item was sold in an online auction !
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| Description: |
| xx, 186 pp. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Engraving to middle of title-page. 8¼x5¼, rebound in library red cloth, original pages with red spotted stained edges. Second Edition, Revised. |
| "One of the classics of golf literature." According to Cecil Hopkinson, "It contained many diagrams and illustrations from instantaneous photographs, which was the first occasion on which the camera was called in to demonstrate correct methods of play. Donovan & Murdoch 3870; Murdoch 699. Ex-library copy, rebound & embossed library stamp to title-page. |
| Condition: |
| Darkening to spine, soiling; remnants of bookplate to front pastedown, half-title page detached, text & photos fine; else good. Formerly in the library of Charles Yaws, first Adminstrator & a director at the U.S. Golf Collectors Society. |
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