Golf for Girls - Spalding's Athletic Library No. 63R by Cecil Leitch - 1916

J. B. Lippincott Company, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover: Previous owners name on first paste-down. Blue cloth binding with title in gold on front board and on spine. Photograph 'tipped in' on front board. Binding is faded and corners and edges are rubbed and worn. One inch cloth tear at rear gutter edge. Interesting biography of an ' early' Woman golfer. Cecil Leitch won the Ladies Open Championship, 1914, 1920, 1921- the Ladies Close in 1914,1919 - the French Ladies in 1912,1914, 1920,1921 and the Canadian Ladies in 1921. Photo illustrated. nice tight binding

London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1924. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First printing. 126 pp., frontis port., 12 pp. of photo plates, octavo format, green cloth with black titles. Nearly Fine text with no owner's name, no noticeable wear, no staining to cloth. Just very slight bumping to the spine-ends and negligible fading to the spine. The original owner has laid a neatly trimmed portion of the front panel of the dustjacket including the author's photo, title above and name below, to use as a bookmark. A superb one-owner copy of this early women's golf book.

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1922. With fifty action and other photographs. Pp. 254, frontispiece portrait, plus 22 plates, index; gilt lettered dark green cloth, a trifle soiled and flecked, edges lightly rubbed, short split at foot of upper joint; fore and bottom edges uncut; hinges starting at a couple of points, lacking the upper free endpaper, a couple of the plates loosening, with red pencil annotation to plate opposite p. 169, a few small edge chips or splits, scattered light foxing, offsetting and soiling; Thornton Butterworth, London, 1922. First edition. Donovan & Murdoch 23910. *Ex library copy, with circular bookplate on upper board, different bookplate on half-title page, and several date and cancelled stamps on the lower endpapers.

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1924. Pp. 126, frontispiece portrait plus 12 plates, index; green cloth, spine lettered in black, boards with single rule border and publisher's device in blind, the spine lightly faded, boards slightly mottled; endpapers and plates offset, scattered foxing; Thornton Butterworth, London, 1924. First edition. Donovan & Murdoch 23950. *The author's second book on golf. Charlotte Cecilia Pitcairn Leitch (1891-1977) was a successful British amateur golfer, and winner of 12 national titles (including four British Ladies Amateur Championships), 5 French Ladies Amateurs, and one Canadian Women's Amateur.

London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1922. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. 254pp. Octavo, uncut in original green cloth plates (including frontispiece portrait) from photos including 50 action photographs and facsimile illustration of postcard in text. very good 1922