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Black Rock Victoria: The Royal Melbourne Golf Club, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 256 pages, indexed, illustrated, bibliography. There is a dedication by Joseph Johnson, one by Phillip Braddock and three more illegible signatures., The book is immaculate. Overseas customers please note the book is heavy and will attract additional postage. "When a group of Meburians, mostly Scots, came together in 1891 and passed a formal motion that it is desirable to form the Melbourne Golf Club, one of Australia's greatest sporting and social institutions came into being. Royal Melbourne has been at the leading edge of Australian golf throughout its first 100 years. The Club has staged Australia's first amateur golf tournament, was involved in the first professional match and was a moving force behine the formation of the Australian Golf Union. This is the public side of Royal Melbourne. The author also takes us behind the scenes to describe with a light touch,…
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THE ROYAL MELBOURNE GOLF CLUB: A Centenary History
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Black Rock, Victoria, Australia: The Royal Melbourne Golf Club, 1991. 256pp., illustrated endpapers, and illustrated throughout: colour plates (including frontispiece), b/white halftone plates and facsimiles (photographs -various sources: archival and private). Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over lightly bumped spine. Plain green boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Illustrated (Front: colour photographic. Rear: archival b/white montage) loose-plastic protected dustjacket edgeworn and bumped, with blind writing indentations on rear panel. This book is an interesting centenary history of one of Australia's, and the world's, greatest golf clubs - the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Written by noted historian and novelist Joseph Johnson (1941-2008), contents include: Prelims., Foreword, Acks., 17 chapters, Maps, Appendices, Bibliography, Pictorial Acks., Index. Book weight approx. 1.65 KG. *Customers outside Australia - This item will incur extra postage charges as it weighs over 1KG. Please email for quote. . First Edition. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- ISBN 10 0646050656
- ISBN 13 9780646050652
- Publisher The Royal Melbourne Golf Club
- Place of Publication Black Rock, Victoria, Australia
- Date Published 1991
- Keywords Sport Club History, Golf Clubs, Australia, Royal Melbourne Golf Club (History), Joseph Johnson, 1941-2008
- Size 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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Royal Melbourne Golf Club, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Very light wear to edges of DJ. When a group of Meburians, mostly Scots, came together in 1891 and passed a formal motion that it is desirable to form the Melbourne Golf Club, one of Australia's greatest sporting and social institutions came into being. Royal Melbourne has been at the leading edge of Australian golf throughout its first 100 years. The Club has staged Australia's first amateur golf tournament, was involved in the first professional match and was a moving force behine the formation of the Australian Golf Union. This is the public side of Royal Melbourne. The author also takes us behind the scenes to describe with a light touch, club life among the members, many of whom have been distinguished public figures.
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