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239 pp. Foreword by Grantland Rice. Illustrated with plates from photographs and from a score card from Sunningdale Golf Club; photogravure frontispiece of a young Jones with tissue-guard. 23.5x16.5 cm. (9¼x6½"), vellum-backed, gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. No. 161 of 300 copies. First Edition.

Signed by Bobby Jones and O.B. Keeler on the limitation page, and again by Jones on the frontispiece below his portrait. The rare signed limited first edition, specially bound with the original vellum spine. Considered to be the most sought after golf book of the twentieth century. Slipcase not present. With the bookplate of American golf book collector, Robert John Smith M.D. on front pastedown. A gold sticker from Old Golf Shop of Cincinnati, OH on front pastedown. Additionally inscribed on verso of frontispiece, "To another great Georgia Golfer - Col. Hatch, from [illegible] N.G. neo(?) golfer. Merry Christmas, 1932." D&M 22730; D&J J12490.