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Item Details
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| Author: |
Victim [D.W.C. Falls] |
| Title: |
An A.B.C. of Golf, by a Victim |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Blanchard Press |
| Date: |
[1898] |
| Item # : |
127355 |
| Offered by: |
PBA Galleries
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| End Date |
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01/06/2003 19:00:00 CST |
| Price realized |
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$ 1000 |
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Item was sold in an online auction !
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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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