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Author: Victim [D.W.C. Falls]
Title: An A.B.C. of Golf, by a Victim - WITHDRAWN - see new entry
Place: New York
Publisher: Blanchard Press
Date: [1898]
Item # : 127202
Offered by: PBA Galleries
Start Date   12/27/2002 17:00:00 CST
Dynamic End Date   01/06/2002 19:00:00 CST
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Minimum Bid   $ 300
Bid Increment   n/a
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Description:
[29] loose pages + [3] ad pp. Illustrated throughout with humorous stone lithograph drawings of golf by Falls. 10¼x8, pictorial burlap wrappers (11"x8¼"), color pictorial cover label, housed in a custom cardboard portfolio. First Edition.
Murdoch describes this as a "book that describes golf by going through the alphabet...illustrated with unusual illustrations printed by stone lithograph methods." Includes the extremely scarce pictorial cover label, which is often lacking. Donovan & Murdoch 4560; Murdoch 823.
Condition:
A fragile title. Burlap spine splitting, some wear and chipping to cover label; the 32 original pages with short tears and loosely laid in, title page with a couple of creases; otherwise very good and clean.
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