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Author: Schiappacasse, Joseph T.
Title: Why Winners Win or Psychology Applied to Sports
Place: Detroit, MI
Publisher: International Sales Co.
Date: [1927]
Item # : 123178
Offered by: PBA Galleries
End Date   12/16/2002 19:00:00 CST
Price realized   $ 60

Item was sold in an online auction !

Description:
123 pp. Preface by Grantland Rice. 7½x5, decoratively embossed maroon cloth with 5 gilt colored illustration inserts of various sporting scenes (including golf) on the front cover and a gilt embossed lettering section, gilt embossed golf bag and clubs and gilt lettering section on the spine. First Edition.
Inscribed the author on the front prelim. "To the U.S.G.A. Golf Museum, with Compliments of the Author, May 24/39, Joseph T. Schiappacasse."
Condition:
From the U.S.G.A. library with their white call-number on the lower spine and bookplate on the front pastedown. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, tape residue to lower covers near spine; mild fading to endpaper margins, else very good to near fine - a bright and clean copy.
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