PBA Galleries - Auctioneers & Appraisers

Item Details


Click to enlarge
Heading:
Author: Murdoch, Joseph S.F.
Title: The Library of Golf, 1743-1966
Place: Detroit, MI
Publisher: Gale Research Co.
Date: 1968
Item # : 114450
Offered by: PBA Galleries
End Date   03/11/2002 19:00:00 CST
Price realized   $ 500

Item was sold in an online auction !

Description:
viii, 314 pp. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, reproductions from book covers, titles & art work. Pictorial endpapers. 8vo. Gilt-stamped & lettered green cloth, slipcase. First Edition. Inscribed by author to Charlie [Yaws], "I hope you find this as interesting as I found it interesting that you would pay such an outrageous price for it" signed Joe Murdoch, and signed again underneather, Joseph S.F. Murdoch, all to front pastedown.
Includes photo negative from a color film, 2 snapshots, 1 close up & 1 slightly further back of the same pose showing 3 men, which includes Joseph Murdoch, Charlie Yaws & a third golf lover at the Golf Collectors Society, placed inside plastic protector. Also, 4 page photocopied typed 1979 bulletin by Murdoch giving updated information & addenda, folded & laid in.
Condition:
Fine in fine slipcase. From the library of Charles H. Yaws, the first Adminstrator and a director of the U.S. Golf Collectors Society, which Murdoch co-founded.
 Bookmark and Share