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Author: Hutchinson, [Horatio] Horace G[ordon]
Title: The Mystery of the Summer House
Place: London
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co.
Date: [c.1920]
Item # : 126785
Offered by: PBA Galleries
End Date   01/20/2003 19:30:00 CST
Price realized   $ 31

Item was sold in an online auction !

Description:
286 pp. Map illustration on verso of title page. 7x4¼, blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Second Edition.
Murdoch writes about Mr. Hutchinson as being "a very important contributor to golfing history in addition to [his] literature. He was a player of considerable skill, winning the first two official Amateur Championships (British) in 1886 and 1887." He wrote nearly 20 mysteries besides his golf non-fiction books. Not in Donovan & Murdoch or in Taylor's "The Golf Murders."
Condition:
Spine sunned, shelf wear and light soiling, spine ends a bit crimped, corners slightly bumped; some aging and darkening to pages, binding somewhat shaken, else relatively very good.
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