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[33] pp. (typed text on recto sides only and includes plates). Illustrated with 7 pages on photographic paper including title (with photo image mounted), a full-page photograph, and 5 architectural course map drawings (1 in back of 18 holes at Oakmont). Also, with 31 original photographs laid down on typed text pages (with some black hand-coloring by the preparer of this book). Letter page in back signed by Ezra Stiles (architect/site planner). 27.5x20.8 cm. (10¾x8¼"), black cloth with pictorial cover label reading: “Oakmont Golf Course & Club Areas.”

The architect's own personal copy of this very scarce book. Signed, "Ezra C. Stiles Personal Copy" on front pastedown. Also, lettered in gilt on front cover at bottom right corner, "Ezra C. Stiles / Landscape Arch." Oakmont Country Club is a prestigious "top five" country club and the "oldest top-ranked golf course in the U.S." This was a planned proposal for landscape/caretaking work to be done on this historic course. The course, designed by Henry Fownes, first opened in 1903. All the greens are still original except for the 8th, which was moved several yards to the left to make way for the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the late 1940's.