SPORTS & RECREATION / Golf Books

New York: Doubleday ., 2001. pp: xvi, 216, [ 4]. Sixteen pages of b&w photographs. Photographic endpapers. Appendices. Crenshaw's autobiography.. ISBN: 038550070X. First Edition. Cloth- Backed Boards.. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Golf, Biography.. ... more information

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New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000. 203pp. An illustrated book on the designs of golf courses intended to help any golfer better understand how to read a course and how to play it.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Sports, Golf. ... more information

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New York: Rutledge, 1972. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. pp: 224. Illustrated throughout with b&w photgraphs. Small closed tear to front panel of dust jacket and some edge wear. " A completely new book of golf instruction by eleven new tour pros from the PGA Tournament Players school." Writers include Tom Watson, Lanny Wadkins, Bob Zender.. GOLF.. ... more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1995. Paper Covered Boards. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. pp: 127. Delightfully illustrated with b&w drawings.. GOLF. PATRICK BENSON.. ... more information

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London: Collins, 1946. pp: 48. Illustrated with eight plates in colour and twenty-seven b&w illustrations. Part of Collins' " Britain in Pictures" series. Ex-library with all the usual markings, but still tight and clean. Some wear to extremeties.. First Edition. Decorative Papercovered Boards. Good-Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Ex-Library. Golf.. ... more information

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Pebble Beach, CA.: Pebble Beach Press, Ltd., 1993. pp; [ii], 50. Fully illustrated with Karsky's delightful watercolours executed in a Japanese style. Pictorial endpapers. Glossary. The story of a young Japanese boy and his PGA father who journey to Augusta for the Masters.. ISBN: 1883740010. First Edition. Pictorial Laminated Boards. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by A. K. Karsky.. 8vo. Golf, Juvenile, Art.. ... more information

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New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. pp: xvi,334. Full wrap-around cover art by Victor Juhasz. The author takes us on an historical tour of the world of golf. From the origins of the game in the twelfth century via the first known golf match in 1504 between James IV of Scotland and the Earl of Bothwell , through the nineteenth century world of Old Tom Morris and Willie Park, to Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones and on into the later twentieth century of Palmer, Nicklaus and Trevino and the PGA. An unread copy.. IS... more information

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[ Clarkston, Scotland.]: [Cathcart Castle Golf Club ], 1995. pp: 135. Fully illustrated with b&w and colour photographs, sketches, newspaper clippings etc. Gift inscription signed by the Club Vice Captain to verso of half-title. Bound in burgundy cloth with block illustration of Cathcart Castle in gilt to the top board. A fine copy of a scarce Scottish club history.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo. Privately Printed. Golf, Club History.. ... more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. pp: viii, 248. Illustrated with numerous pencil drawings to the text. Index. Quarter-bound in yellow cloth over green paper-covered boards. Spine of dust jacket sunned ; quarter-inch nick to top edge of front panel. An how-to golf book well interspesed with Snead's salty anecdotes.. Second Impression.. Cloth- Backed Boards.. Very Good - Near Fine./Good - Very Good. Illus. by Burt Silverman.. 8vo. Golf.. ... more information

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Willowdale, ON.: Firefly Books. 1997. Illustrated Wrappers. First Edition. 4to. pp: 237. Fully illustrated with colour photographs and digital plans of the courses in colour. Bibliography. Thirty-eight of the finest courses in the United States are listed accompanied by in-depth histories and graphically exact digital course maps.. GOLF, COURSES. MICHAEL FRENCH ( PHOTOGRAPHER).. ... more information

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Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Co., 1994. pp: xvi, 192. Illustrated throughout with b&w and colour photographs, plans of courses etc. Foreword by Byron Nelson. Introduction by Arnold Palmer. The author reviews the history of fifty historic American courses.. ISBN: 0878338586. First Edition. Cloth, Gilt Lettering.. Fine/Fine, Price Clipped. 4to. Golf, America, Courses.. ... more information

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992. pp: xxii, 626. Fully illustrated with b&w and colour photographs, advertisements, caricatures, plans, reproductions of early illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Appendices, bibliography, index. Forewords by Marlene Stewart Streit and Ralph Costello. The book covers all aspects of the game in Canada, dating back to its first appearance at Priests' Farm in Montreal in 1826.. ISBN: 071101080X. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Fine/Fine. 4to. Golf, Canada.. ... more information

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Pownal, VT.: Storey Communications / Ailsa Inc., 1988. pp: [12, foreword], [viii], 254, [14, afterword]. Sixty-four beautiful watercolours by Rountree. New foreword by Herbert Warren Wind; new afterword by Ben Cranshaw. Quarter-inch tear to tail of spine with a little creasing. Very handsomely bound in green cloth lettered, ruled, and decorated in gilt to front and to spine.Originally published in 1910 by Duckworth, London, this is a facsimile reprint from The Classics of Golf series." Darwin was pe... more information

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Vancouver: Mitchell Press Ltd. 1969. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 129pp. Spine ends bumped. The dust jacket has surface rubbing, chips and creases.. GOLF. ... more information

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B. Mitchell.. Cloth, Gilt Lettering. Near Fine/Fine. Reprint. 4to. pp: 207. Illustrated throughout with colour and b&w photographs, line drawings. Index. Originally published by Orbis, UK, in 1986. Very light sunning to edges.. GOLF.. ... more information

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London: Adam and Charles Black., 1976. pp: xvi, 198. Four pages of b&w illustrations. A collection of essays by one of golf's great writers.. ISBN: 0713616873. First Edition. Cloth, Gilt Lettering.. Near Fine/Very Good, Price Clipped.. 8vo. Golf.. ... more information

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London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd., 1983. pp: 178. Illustrated with twelve pages of b&w photographs. Index. Reminiscences of well-known author MacVicar's years of playing golf......mostly in Scotland.. ISBN: 0091541603. First Edition. Cloth, Gilt Lettering.. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Golf, Reminiscences, Biography.. ... more information

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Washington: Brassey's Inc., 1998. pp: xii, 218. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Sources, index. An interesting compilation of anecdotes from the world of golf. A fun read.. ISBN: 1574881841. First Edition. Facsimile Leather.. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Golf.. ... more information

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New York: Atheneum, 1986. pp: xvi, 282. Illustrated with b&w photographs. A history of American golf through the memories of twenty-four of its early players includingSam Snead, Byron Nelson, Bill Spiller , Sam Parks Jr. and Betsy Rawls.. ISBN: 0689115172. First Edition. Cloth- Backed Boards.. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Golf, America.. ... more information

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Montreal: Boarish Press., 1995. pp: xii, 41. Nine pages of b&w illustrations. Appendices, references. A collection of four parables that reflect what the author considers to be intrinsic aspects of the game. . ISBN: 0969880707. First Edition. Cloth, Gilt Lettering.. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Golf.. ... more information

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