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Author: Cotton, Henry
Title: This Game of Golf
Place: London
Publisher: Country Life
Date: [1948]
Item # : 126087
Offered by: PBA Galleries
End Date   12/09/2002 19:00:00 CST
Price realized   $ 21

Item was sold in an online auction !

Description:
248 pp. Foreword by Bernard Darwin. Illustrated with several action photographs throughout. Photo frontispiece. 10x7½, green cloth, lettered in white. First Edition.
When the author was nearing the completion of the book, Cotton, at age 41, won the Open Championship for the third time. His comments on this remarkable feat, and on the fruitful trip to the U.S. that preceded it, will be read by all golfers with special interest. Donovan & Murdoch 13110; Murdoch 152.
Condition:
Spine and rear panel edges sunned, light frays at bottom spine, mild rubbing; hinges cracking, small bookseller's label to rear pastedown; about very good.
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