“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose”
--- Winston S. Churchill ---
New York: Harcourt, 1974. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Here is a rollicking, anecdotal history of golf's PGA tour from one of golf's best writers.The PGA Tour's beginnings can be traced 1895, when Willie Dunn battled Willie Park, Jr. for an unprecedented $200 purse. By the mid-70s.....
![Item #013988 Picture Analysis of Golf Strokes [in a Custom Slipcase]. James M. Barnes](/pictures/thumb/013988.png?v=1647719400)
Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1919. Photography by L. F. Deming. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A handsome illustrated instructional work on golf featuring extensive use of action photography. Mr. Barns was the model for more than 300 photographic illustrations. Remarkably, this was the first book.....
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Soft cover. When this was published the author was Instructor, Department of Hygiene and Physical Education for Women Stanford University.Ref: D&M 11770; D&J C1480; OCLC: 880942843.
![Item #013974 [Women in Golf] Ladies in the Rough. Glenna Collett, James M. Neville, Bobby Jones](/pictures/thumb/013974.jpg?v=1647719692)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover. An autobiographical account of Glenna Collett's career up to this point. Collett won the U. S. Women's Amateur Championship six times and was the dominant female player of her time.Ref: Murdock, 138; D&M,12730.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcover in a Good Dust Jacket. Ref: D&M 12710 Murdoch,138; D&J, C16090.Provenance: Joe Murdoch was a golf collector and writer who was one of the founding members of the Golf Collectors Society.
![Item #16014 Rules of The Thistle Golf Club and A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf [2 Volumes]. John...](/pictures/thumb/16014.jpg?v=1660847709)
Far Hills, NJ: United States Golf Association, 1983. Facsimiles of two golf classics. Limited to 1,900 copies. [1791/1900]. Two Fine Hardcovers in a Custom Slipcase. Limited Editions of Two 19th Century Golfing Classics one regarding the rules of golf in general, one focusing specifically in Ireland.
![Item #013955 Golf Club World, Behind the Gates [with Country Club Recipes]. Diana DeLucia](/pictures/thumb/013955.jpg?v=1647777087)
USA: Diana DeLucia Photography LLC, 2013. Photography by DeLucia, Diana. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Travel from your armchair to 12 of the world's most interesting golf properties told from the point of view of the Club Management. Includes recipes from each Country Club's.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1916. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover in a Very Good Custom Slipcase. Dunn originally from North Berwick, trained as a professional greenskeeper and course builder, before he migrated to the USA in 1894, after various jobs on the East coast he eventually.....
California: The Almark Company, 1977. A Near Fine Soft cover. Originally published in 1960 under the title The Lady Golfer's bible.Surprisingly not located in OCLC; Not in Donovan or Murdoch. Though it does not indicate so, this was a copy once belonging to Joseph Murdoch.Ref: Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third.....
Skokie, Illinois: Privately Printed, 1958. Fine, Howard and Benjamin. A Very Good Softcover. The authors, after 42 years of studying the game, have broken down the golf swing into four parts, and through a series of photographs and slow-motion exercises have developed a program to help golfers improve their game.....
![Item #15956 Golf in the Making [History]. Ian T. Henderson, Davis L. Stirk](/pictures/thumb/15956.jpg?v=1658502404)
Crawley, Near Winchester, England: Henderson and Stirk Ltd, 1979. Deluxe Edition. A Fine Leather Hardcover. The complete history up to 1914 including the leading golfers, the clubs. the balls and other equipment described with illustration. Ref: D&M 55850.
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, [1954]. Fifth Printing. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Lawrence Lariar was an American novelist, cartoonist and cartoon editor, notable for his Best Cartoons of the Year series of cartoon collections.
Dayton, Ohio: Macgregor, 1922. A Very Good Soft cover. Scarce promotional booklet from The Crawford, Macgregor & Canby Company.Illustrated from photos & figure drawings (Cover illustration: teeing off on the MacGregor Private Course). Containing information on different types of clubs (driver, brassie, mid iron, mashie, niblick, putter), various balls including.....
New York: A. S. Barns and Company, 1938. A Very Good Soft cover. This illustrated book includes rules, techniques, and bibliography for each sport. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Stapled wraps, 4.75 by 6.75 inches; 95 pages with 1 page of publisher's Advert; attached at the rear is a folded.....
New York: Frederick Stokes, 1920. Stuart Hay. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 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.....
Roswell, Georgia: WH Wolfe Associates, Historical Publications Division, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The story of the Atlantic Athletic Club is a slice of Atlanta's history. The book among other topics shows the rise of Bobby Jones.
Worcestershire, England: Grant Books Ltd, 1982. Limited Edition. Stapled illustrated stiff wraps.
Mount Morris, IL: Published for the Author, by Kable Bros, 1914. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pendleton offers suggestions to tackle real problems that amateurs experience on the course through short page excerpts.
![Item #15617 [Golf Instruction; Flip Book] How to Drive. Gene Sarazen](/pictures/thumb/15617.jpg?v=1653772071)
New York: Moviescope Corporation, 1933. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Book in Stapled Wraps. A very rare flip-book, an unrecorded Sarazen item. This copy is not in D&J; Not in Murdoch [Not in the 2017 catalogue of Alastair Johnston's collection] Not located in any institution [OCLC/WorldCat]Background Information:Gene Sarazen.....
New York: Garden City Books, 1952. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for the better part of four decades and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
New York: Sun Dial Press, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Soft cover. This is his first instructional manual on his innovative style (he's credited with the 'stack-and-tilt' method)."Golf is a matter of feeling and touch," Snead concludes. 'Only a limited amount of good golf can be imparted.....
New York: Sports Illustrated, 1961. Original Drawing by Anthony Ravielli. Stapled Wraps. An advertising piece from Ford Motor Company with golf tips. The center fold highlights Ford's Thunderbird and Starliner and the Ford V-8 on the rear cover.