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Author: (Apawamis Club) Conroy, William H.
Title: Fifty Years of Apawamis, 1890-1940
Place: Rye, NY
Publisher: Privately Printed
Date: 1940
Item # : 124708
Offered by: PBA Galleries
End Date   12/02/2002 19:00:00 CST
Price realized   $ 42

Item was sold in an online auction !

Description:
Illustrated from photographs and facsmiles, including endpapers & map of the golf course by H. B. Martin. 10x7½, gilt-lettered green & white cloth, top edge gilt. No. 453 of 500 copies. First Edition.
Presentation copy, signed to the United States Golf Association on the limitation page. An attractively produced history of this famous golf club, which boasts the creation of the U.S. Seniors Golf Association & its inaugural tournament of 1905. It was also known for giving away the 1911 U.S. Amateur title to England for the first time (won by Harold Hilton in one of golf's most celebrated shots). Donovan & Murdoch 12940; Murdoch 146.5.
Condition:
From the U.S.G.A. library with call number and tape residue on lower spine area and bookplate on front pastedown. Spine slightly leaning, light shelf wear and soiling, corners and spine ends a bit bumped, else very good.
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