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Author: Hopkins, Frank
Title: Golf Holes They Talk About
Place: New York
Publisher: [Privately printed]
Date: 1927
Item # : 126720
Offered by: PBA Galleries
End Date   01/27/2003 19:00:00 CST
Price realized   $ 400

Item was sold in an online auction !

Description:
[64] pp. Illustrated with cartoon drawings throughout by Frank Hopkins. 8¼x12, rebound in modern green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, new endpapers. No. 242 of 880 hand-numbered copies by the author. First Edition.
Signed by Frank (Hop) Hopkins on the limitation page with a small drawing of two golf clubs through his name at the "Hop" portion. "The contents of this book are a reprint of a series of sketches that had appeared as a daily feature on the sports pages of the New York Telegram during the summer of 1927." Originally published in pictorial wrappers. Donovan & Murdoch 23190; Murdoch 354.
Condition:
From the U.S.G.A. library with their call-number tag on the spine and bookplate on the front pastedown. Light wear; minor fingering to original endleaves and preliminary pages; contents near fine and bright in a near fine and new binding.
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