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Item Details
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| Author: |
Leach, Henry, ed. |
| Title: |
Great Golfers in the Making, by Thirty-four Famous Players |
| Place: |
Philadelphia |
| Publisher: |
George W. Jacobs |
| Date: |
[c.1907] |
| Item # : |
124457 |
| Offered by: |
PBA Galleries
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| End Date |
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12/02/2002 19:05:00 CST |
| Price realized |
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$ 120 |
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Item was sold in an online auction !
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| Description: |
| xxi, 299 pp. Illustrated from photographsincluding frontispiece portrait of Sandy Herd's grandfather, Old Tom Morris, Allan Robertson and others together near St. Andrews, with tissue-guard. 8½x5½, original gilt-lettered and decorated salmon cloth rebacked with original spine laid on; housed in a custom box. First American Edition. |
| "A very interesting book in that it tells the story of most of the very early and some of the very great golfers." A much more valuable book if it were in better condition. Donovan & Murdoch 23750; Murdoch 436. |
| Condition: |
| From the U.S.G.A. library with white call-numbers on lower spine and bookplate on front free endpaper. Faint darkening and stains to cracked and chipped spine, light soiling and shelf wear; hinges expertly repaired with tissue, bookplate from Crafts W. Higgins, frontispiece a bit wrinkled, photo plate at p. 38 with 1 portion clipped-out, rubberstamp on last page; still a very good and sturdy copy. |
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