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Author: Adams, Frederick Upham
Title: John Henry Smith: A Golfing Romance
Place: London
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co.
Date: 1905
Item # : 124749
Offered by: PBA Galleries
End Date   12/02/2002 19:00:00 CST
Price realized   $ 44

Item was sold in an online auction !

Description:
xvi, 346 pp. Illustrated with drawings by A.B. Frost. 7¾x5, gilt-decorated and lettered green cloth. First British Edition.
"A charming and innocent early novel enhanced by the wickedly humorous illustrations of Mr. Frost, one of the first and finest illustrators of the American golfing scene." Donovan & Murdoch 4860; Murdoch 4.
Condition:
Tape residue to lower spine, light shelf wear, soiling, spine dulled and rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped; hinges reinforced with white cloth tape, front hinge cracking at slightly detached half-title page, endleaves somewhat darkened and brittle, else good to about very good.
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