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Item Details
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| Author: |
Whigham, H.J. |
| Title: |
How To Play Golf |
| Place: |
Chicago |
| Publisher: |
Herbert S. Stone |
| Date: |
1897 |
| Item # : |
126099 |
| 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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$ 55 |
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Item was sold in an online auction !
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| Description: |
| 313, + [11] ad pp. Illustrated with action photographs throughout. 7¾x5¼, blue cloth, lettered in yellow. First Edition. |
| This was the first book of golf instruction published in America and contained the first "action photos" of golf. Whigham was a graduate of Oxford and later US Amateur champion for two years, and the son-in-law of C.B. MacDonald to whom he dedicates the book. Donovan & Murdoch 4600; Murdoch 847. |
| Condition: |
| Spine ends a bit rubbed, toned, and slightly leaning, mild soil; front hinge cracked at endpapers and split through at half-title, rear hinge cracked, dampsoiling to pages; good or better, worthy of restoration. |
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