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Author: (Golf - Harper's) Sutphen, W.G. Van Tassel
Title: Harper's Round Table 1898 - With The Making of a Golf-Course
Place: New York
Publisher: Harper & Bros.
Date: 1899
Item # : 118210
Offered by: PBA Galleries
Start Date   07/19/2002 17:00:00 CDT
Dynamic End Date   07/29/2002 19:00:00 CDT
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Minimum Bid   $ 50
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Description:
vii, [1],576 pp. Reproductions from drawings & paintings throughout, including some by Peter Newell, A.J. Keller & others. (4to) 11x8, red cloth stamped in black, lettered in gilt.
Includes: "The Making of a Golf-Course" by W.G. Van Tassel Sutphen accompanied with photos & figure drawings. Also: The Romance of the South Seas by Owen Hall; The Mutiny on the "Swallow" by W.J. Henderson; Traps & Trapping by Tappan Adney with figure drawings; Great Britain's Indian Army by Edwin Lord Weeks; My Escape from Cuba by Gen. J.K. Jordan; The Flunking of Watkins' Ghost by John Kendrick Bangs; A Moral Pirate by Read-Admiral John H. Usphur; On Muleback in Morocco by John Langton Heaton; Snap Shots at Wild Beasts; Book-Making in the Middle Ages by G.T. Ferris; Where the Trout Live by Edwin C. Kent; Training Animals for Circus Tricks by J. Parmly Paret; The Fox and the Raven, a poem illus. by Peter Newell; At the Blue Hole (a fishing story) by G. Lancaster Bent & much more interesting true life and fictional stories for young adults and adults alike.
Condition:
Light soiling & shelf wear, minor discoloration spot to rear cover, slight insect wear to spine; binding somewhat shaken, faint foxing to endpapers, short gift inscription to front free endpaper, else very good, or better.
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