HUMOURS OF GOLF by Robinson, W. Heath - 1923

NY: Warner Books, 2001. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Warner Books, 2001, first printing. folio, 9 1/2" x 11 1/4", 306pp., numerous color illustrations throughout, fold-out section on techinque of the swing. Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1892. 2nd Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Half dark brown leather and red marbled boards, moderately edgeworn at extremities, with gilt titling and decoration on banded spine--lovely! Mahogany red marbled endpapers. One leaf/two pages of plates loose. Otherwise binding is tight and sound. This is a pleasantly heavy book; it has a nice 'hand'. Three former owners' names, dates, and one inscription on front free end paper. 8vo. BOOK INFO: One of the first--if not THE first--editions of this book to include photographs (B&W) of golfers demonstrating play: 20 plates and 10 diagrams showing positions of feet and hands. In two parts--I. Preliminary and Principally Foolish: The Praise of Golf; The Origin of Golf; The Nature of the Game; Of Sets of Clubs and Other Golfing Appurtenances; Of Caddies; II. Of Playing the Game: Of Driving in General; Of Style in Driving; Advice to Beginners; Of Peculiarities and Faults; Of Temporary Faults; Of Playing Through… Read More

This book is in good condition but does not have a DJ. There is a Library Stamp inside front cover.Well illustratedSee photos

New York: Frederick Stokes, 1920. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stuart Hay. Pictorial paper on boards; Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with minor soiling; light edge and corner wear. The matching pictorial Dust Jacket is unclipped and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. There are minuscule chips and tears to jacket with one larger chip at head of jacket spine at rear. 8vo; 7.25 by 5 inches (18.5x12.3 cm); [6], 152 pp. First American Edition. Rarely seen in jacket.. A somewhat disguised novel of St. Andrews, of which includes the well-known St. Andrews figures of the time. The American version of The Haunted Major, one of the classic British golf fiction stories. This humorous novel of golf and golfers about a self-professed expert in every sport but golf who must learn golf in a week to win the love of a millionaire American widow and golf enthusiast. golf, greed, love, and a ghost, what… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1975. Hardcover pictorial boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illustrations by Simon Paukov. Signed and inscribed on front endpapers by three 20th century golf greats - Chi Chi Rodriguez, Jim Dent, and Byron Nelson. Rodriguez has written in blue felt tip, To Bernie from your friend Juan Chi Chi Rodriguez. Dent has written in pencil, Friend Bernie - Try using the Black Shaft Jim Dent. Nelson has written All my love Byron Nelson. Also on the endpaper is an inscription, Happy Golfing Irving Palmer and a comical diagram of the chemical composition of TNT. Foreword by Byron Nelson. Prepared by Elias Productions, Inc. 152 pages, spine darkening but pages clean and binding solid. Rodriguez is a Puerto Rican golfer born in 1935, winner of 8 PGA Tour events, and is in the World Golf Hall of Fame. James Lacey Dent is an African-American golfer born in 1939 who has numerous professional wins, especially as a Senior (50+) golfer. Byron Nelson, 1912-2006, was an American pro golfer in the… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1919. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Photographs By L. F. Deming. 252 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Printing With 1919 Date On Title And Copyright Pages, No Additional Printing Indicated. Clean, All Gilt Brilliant On Spine And Front Cover, Touch Of Rubbing To Cloth At Corners, No Fraying, No Stains Or Foxing, A Little Wear To Cover Paste-On Illustration And A Few Flecks To Cloth (Lightening Of Color) But Cloth Clean, Bright, Unfaded; Contents Square And Immaculate. Hinges Tight. Pencil Ownership Signature Of G W Mead, Champion Golfer At Pinehurst Around 1919-1921. This First Printing Is Scarce In Such Well-Preserved Condition.

NY: Warner Books, 2001. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Warner Books, 2001, first printing. folio, 9 1/2" x 11 1/4", 306pp., numerous color illustrations throughout, fold-out section on techinque of the swing. Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1892. 2nd Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Half dark brown leather and red marbled boards, moderately edgeworn at extremities, with gilt titling and decoration on banded spine--lovely! Mahogany red marbled endpapers. One leaf/two pages of plates loose. Otherwise binding is tight and sound. This is a pleasantly heavy book; it has a nice 'hand'. Three former owners' names, dates, and one inscription on front free end paper. 8vo. BOOK INFO: One of the first--if not THE first--editions of this book to include photographs (B&W) of golfers demonstrating play: 20 plates and 10 diagrams showing positions of feet and hands. In two parts--I. Preliminary and Principally Foolish: The Praise of Golf; The Origin of Golf; The Nature of the Game; Of Sets of Clubs and Other Golfing Appurtenances; Of Caddies; II. Of Playing the Game: Of Driving in General; Of Style in Driving; Advice to Beginners; Of Peculiarities and Faults; Of Temporary Faults; Of Playing Through… Read More

This book is in good condition but does not have a DJ. There is a Library Stamp inside front cover.Well illustratedSee photos

New York: Frederick Stokes, 1920. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stuart Hay. Pictorial paper on boards; Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with minor soiling; light edge and corner wear. The matching pictorial Dust Jacket is unclipped and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. There are minuscule chips and tears to jacket with one larger chip at head of jacket spine at rear. 8vo; 7.25 by 5 inches (18.5x12.3 cm); [6], 152 pp. First American Edition. Rarely seen in jacket.. A somewhat disguised novel of St. Andrews, of which includes the well-known St. Andrews figures of the time. The American version of The Haunted Major, one of the classic British golf fiction stories. This humorous novel of golf and golfers about a self-professed expert in every sport but golf who must learn golf in a week to win the love of a millionaire American widow and golf enthusiast. golf, greed, love, and a ghost, what… Read More