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Item Details
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| Author: |
Vaile, P.A. |
| Title: |
Modern Golf |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Adam & Charles Black |
| Date: |
1909 |
| Item # : |
114453 |
| 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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$ 100 |
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Item was sold in an online auction !
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| Description: |
| xiv, [2], 252 pp. Illustrated with 100 full-page photographic plates and 56 diagrams. Frontispiece photo with tissue-guard. 7¾x5½, gilt-lettered blue cloth, gilt pictorial cover depicting a golfer in mid-swing, spine stamped with gilt bag of irons, t.e.g. First Edition. |
| "Mr. Vaile's purpose was a good one, `...to produce a book from which a person who has never handled a club caught such an idea of the game and the underlying principles that govern the flight and run of the ball that he may soon become a confident and good player.'" Donovan & Murdoch 38160; Murdoch 808. |
| Condition: |
| ½" chip & tear at spine head, ¼ chip & seperate short tear at spine tail, light soiling & shelf wear, corners lightly bumped; some signatures to middle of book a bit loose with hinges starting, else good or better. From the collection of Charlie Yaws, first Adminstrator & a Director at the U.S. Golf Collectors Society. |
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