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Item Details
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| Author: |
Sutton, Martin H.F., ed. |
| Title: |
The Book of the Links: A Symposium on Golf by Sir George Riddell, Bernard Darwin, Martin H.F. Sutton, H.S. Colt, A.D. Hall, Prize Essay by a Greenkeeper,.... |
| Place: |
London |
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W.H. Smith & Son |
| Date: |
[1912] |
| Item # : |
124696 |
| Offered by: |
PBA Galleries
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| End Date |
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12/02/2002 19:00:00 CST |
| Price realized |
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$ 120 |
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Item was sold in an online auction !
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| Description: |
| x, 212 + xii ad pp. Illustrated with several plates from photographs and drawings. 9½x6, blue cloth, gilt-lettered tan morocco spine label (laid in), lettered in gilt. First Edition. |
| One of the earliest books to give advice to greenskeepers and greens committees, as well as a very comprehensive account of how to construct and maintain a golf course. A worn copy that usually sells for $400 or more for a copy in better condition. Donovan & Murdoch 36310; Murdoch 757. |
| Condition: |
| From the U.S.G.A. library with call-numbering on spine and bookplate on front pastedown. Rear joint split, front splitting with spine strip loose, top 3" of cloth spine detached and laid in, tape residue to lower spine, soiling and shelf wear; glue stain on front free endpaper, 1 plate detached another repaired, else fair to good condition. |
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