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[6], 68 + [2] ad pp. 6½x4¼, original printed red wrappers, rebacked with red paper. First Edition.

Inscribed and signed by the author’s son, Leslie Balfour-Melville (1854-1937) to George Sayers, dated February 1924 on the half-title. The Balfours were a well-known golfing family, the most skillful of whom was James' son, Leslie who won the British Amateur in 1895. The book relates tales of the Old Course during a time when there were relatively few golfers and is of great interest because it gives one of the few first-hand accounts of how the course was played in those early days. "One of the rarest of all golf items" - Murdoch 30; D&M 600; D&J B2890.