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Item Details
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| Author: |
André, R[ichard] |
| Title: |
Golf Plays and Recitations |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
R. A. Everett |
| Date: |
1903-04 |
| Item # : |
163197 |
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| Sale Number |
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314 |
| Lot Number |
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10 |
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| Rare Golf Books from Three Private Libraries, with additions |
| Sale Date |
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07/28/2005 |
| Price realized |
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$ 2875 |
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| Description: |
| Illustrated with 6 full-page wood-engraved drawings, including frontispiece of the 1900 West Herts Golf Club dinner program cover and from 5 photographs (one page with two photos, including one of the author dressed in costume as the Santa Claus character). 7x4¾, original pictorial red cloth over thin boards, stamped in black. First Edition. |
| Rare and early golf play. André was a member of the West Herts Golf Club and the author of several other plays. Donovan & Murdoch 5540; Murdoch 16. From the Joseph S.F. Murdoch Golf Library, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. |
| Condition: |
| Slight edge wear, spine a bit sunned, a few tiny stains; small chip to top front free endpaper corner, foxing to pastedowns, marginal toning throughout; still near fine of this extremely scarce and fragile item. |
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