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Item Details
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| Author: |
Lang, Andrew, et al. |
| Title: |
A Batch of Golfing Papers |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Simpkin, Marshall, et al. |
| Date: |
[1982] |
| Item # : |
126094 |
| Offered by: |
PBA Galleries
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| End Date |
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12/09/2002 19:15:00 CST |
| Price realized |
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$ 55 |
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Item was sold in an online auction !
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| Description: |
| 123 pp. Edited by R. Barclay. Illustrated by John Duncan. Bound into modern green cloth with original printed front wrapper mounted within. First Edition. |
| Donovan & Murdoch 3325; Murdoch 34 - Lang was a Scottish poet and story-teller (his Fairy Book series was a favorite among Victorian children), and considered by some the Poet-Laureate of golf. Murdoch writes that this book "preserves for us some fine material that even today makes pleasant reading." |
| Condition: |
| Modern cloth binding with new endpapers, containing original printed wrappers. From the USGA library with label taped to spine and labels to inside front wrapper, with small pencilled numbers to title page; spine leaning a bit; small, attractive bookseller's label to front pastedown, rectangular piece of paper applied to front wrapper, with pencilled ownership signature and small edge chips to wrapper, bookplate to frontispiece verso, foxing; very good. |
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