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Author: Balfour, James
Title: Reminiscences of Golf on St. Andrew's Links
Place: Carlinville, IL
Publisher: Chas. A. "Bud" Dufner
Date: 1982
Item # : 207872
Sale Number   422
Lot Number   19
Sale Name    
Fine Golf Books & Memorabilia: The Library of John M. McClelland, Jr., & other owners
Sale Date   02/18/2010
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 250
High Estimate   $ 350
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Description:
[6], 68 pp. 6½x4¼, red wrappers. No. 72 of 300 copies.
Facsimile of the 1887 first edition, which was called by Murdoch "One of the rarest of all golf items". The Balfours were a well-known golfing family, the most skillful of whom was James' son, Leslie Balfour-Melville, who won the British Amateur in 1895. D&J B2950.
Condition:
Spine sunned a bit; else fine.
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