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Author: Beldam, George W.
Title: Great Golfers: Their Methods at a Glance
Place: London
Publisher: Macmillan
Date: 1904
Item # : 127208
Offered by: PBA Galleries
End Date   01/06/2003 19:00:00 CST
Price realized   $ 55

Item was sold in an online auction !

Description:
xxiv, 481 + 2 ad pp. Contributions by Harold Hilton, J.H. Taylor, James Braid, Alex Herd and Harry Vardon. Illustrated from 268 action photographs, includes frontispiece with tissue-guard. 8¾x5¾, gilt-decorated & lettered green cloth, t.e.g. First Edition.
Although Beldam was one of the first advocates of teaching golf through photographs, and despite the fact that this book was beautifully produced with photographs of famous players, the pictures are useless for instruction because the odd angles from which the subjects were photographed led to incorrect conclusions as to the proper method of swinging. Donovan & Murdoch 6620; Murdoch 55.
Condition:
Joints and extremities rubbed, light soiling, binding somewhat shaken, call-number tag on lower spine; occasional light foxing; still very good.
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