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Author: Wind, Herbert Warren
Title: The Story of American Golf: Its Champions and Championships
Place: New York
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Co.
Date: 1948
Item # : 116147
Offered by: PBA Galleries
End Date   05/13/2002 19:05:00 CDT
Price realized   $ 225

Item was sold in an online auction !

Description:
Illustrated with photographs. 11x8, green cloth, jacket, slipcase. First Edition.
Donovan & Murdoch 40330; Murdoch 870 - "This great book is one of the modern-day masterpieces of golf literature, written by a writer who will surely be recognized as one of the very best writers on the subject. Some of Mr. Wind's words were used in a testimonial to Bernard Darwin and to paraphrase those words, if Mr. Darwin showed the writers who came after him how golf could and should be written, Mr. Wind learned the lesson better than most of his contemporaries" - Murdoch.
Condition:
Slipcase rubbed and soiling and with some insect wear and dampstaining; price clipped, dampstain to upper right corner of front panel and around on front flap, rubbing and slight fraying to spine ends of jacket, else volume about fine, near fine jacket and very good slipcase.
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