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Item Details
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| Author: |
Beldam, George W. |
| Title: |
Great Golfers:Their Methods at a Glance |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Macmillan |
| Date: |
1904 |
| Item # : |
126080 |
| Offered by: |
PBA Galleries
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| End Date |
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12/09/2002 19:00:00 CST |
| Price realized |
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$ 60 |
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Item was sold in an online auction !
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| Description: |
| xxiv, 481 + 2 ad pp. Contributions by Harold Hilton, J.H. Taylor, James Braid, Alex Herd and Harry Vardon. Illustrated from 268 action photographs, includes frontispiece with tissue-guard. 8¾x5¾, gilt-decorated & lettered green cloth, t.e.g. First Edition. |
| Although Beldam was one of the first advocates of teaching golf through photographs, and despite the fact that this book was beautifully produced with photographs of famous players, the pictures are useless for instruction because the odd angles from which the subjects were photographed led to incorrect conclusions as to the proper method of swinging. Donovan & Murdoch 6620; Murdoch 55. |
| Condition: |
| From the USGA library with label taped to spine and labels to front pastedown; Moderate soil and rubbing, spine leaning a bit, ½" chip at bottom spine, shallow chips at top spine, small split to rear joint; ownership signature to front free endpaper, front hinge cracked, rear hinge partly cracked, foxing to endpapers, creases to a few pages; about very good. |
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