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Author: (Royal Melbourne Golf Club) Johnson, Joseph
Title: The Royal Melbourne Golf Club: A Centenary History
Place: [Cheltenham Road, Black Rock, Victoria, Australia]
Publisher: [Royal Melbourne Golf Club]
Date: [1991]
Item # : 123166
Offered by: PBA Galleries
End Date   01/20/2003 19:30:00 CST
Price realized   $ 90

Item was sold in an online auction !

Description:
256 pp. Illustrated with numerous photographs, facsimiles, etc. throughout, some of which are in color; pictorial endpapers. 10½x10½, green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, color pictorial jacket. First Edition.
The history and origins told in this illustrated examination of this famous Australian golf club, which staged the countries first amateur golf tournament, was involved with the first professional match and was a moving force behind the formation of the Australian Golf Union.
Condition:
From the U.S.G.A. library with their call-number tag on the jacket and volume spines and penciled call-numbers on title page. Mild wrinkling to jacket edges, light soiling; top front edge of cloth a 1½" bump, otherwise still a near fine copy with a near fine jacket.
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