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Cover illustration: From the illustrated title page of GOLFER’S GUIDE To The Games and Greens of Scotland by W. Dalrymple (1894). 12. End paper illustrations: From HALF HOURS WITH AN OLD GOLFER by James McHardy (1895). 15. Back cover illustration: From the front board of W.W. Tulloch, W.W. THE LIFE OF TOM MORRIS (1907). 30.
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1. AITCHISON, Thomas S.; LORIMER, George. REMINIS- CENCES OF THE OLD BRUNTSFIELD LINKS GOLF CLUB 1866-1874 Privately printed, 1902. First edition, printed for private circulation. 4to. Rebacked in blue buckram covers with gilt title to cover and spine. Frontis- piece photogravure of the author and line drawing of old club- house facing p.1. A very good copy, with the head of the spine neatly strengthened and some wear to spine ends and corners. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper and occasional foxing. [45929] £300 Set up in 1761, Bruntsfield is the fourth oldest golf club in the world. “Told in the first person, this handsome volume includes many of the club’s poems, or lays, as they were called, which were written to honour members on special occasions. The recollections of the two authors make interesting reading and are valuable in helping to fill out our knowledge of early golf” - [Murdoch] Murdoch 8
2. BALFOUR, James REMINISCENCES OF GOLF ON ST. AN- DREWS LINKS David Douglas, 1887. First edition. 12mo. Rebound in recent full red calf with black titles and blind stamped borders to upper cover and marbled endpapers. A very good copy, with a little wear to the corners of the preliminaries, a chip to the upper corner of the half title and scattered foxing throughout. [45942] £1,250 This book has long been regarded as one of the great rarities of golf lit- erature. Murdoch refers to it as “one of the rarest of all golf items”. It charts the development of golf in St Andrews, the architectural develop- ment of the Old Course during Balfour’s forty-five years playing there, and the great development in equipment over this period. Perhaps chief among the changes that Balfour records, and disapproves of, is the in- troduction of dual-greens and wider fairways in order to better accom- modate games playing their second nine as the popularity of the sport soared in the mid-eighteenth century. Balfour was one of the noted golf- ers of his age and member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, where he won the Club’s gold medal three times between 1853 and 1861. His son, Leslie won the British Amateur Championship in 1895. Murdoch 30
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3 . BALFOUR, James REMINISCENCES OF GOLF ON ST. ANDREWS LINKS David Douglas, 1887.
First edition. Original publisher’s red wrappers printed in black. Some wear to the spine, with a little loss to the spine ends, but otherwise crisp and clean throughout. Overall an exceptional copy of a book almost unobtainable in an unrepaired state. Housed in a custom made clamshell cloth case. [37094] £4,500 This book has long been regarded as one of the great rarities of golf literature. Murdoch refers to it as “one of the rarest of all golf items”. It charts the development of golf in St Andrews, the architectural development of the Old Course during Balfour’s forty-five years playing there, and the great development in equipment over this period. Perhaps chief among the changes that Balfour records, and disapproves of, is the introduction of dual-greens and wider fairways in order to better accommodate games playing their second nine as the popularity of the sport soared in the mid-eighteenth century. Balfour was one of the noted golfers of his age and member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, where he won the Club’s gold medal three times between 1853 and 1861. His son, Leslie won the British Amateur Championship in 1895. Murdoch 30
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4 . BANTOCK, Miles. ON MANY GREENS A Book On Golf and Golfers. With an introduction by Findlay S. Douglas. Grosset & Dunlap, 1901. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial green cloth stamped in black, red, and white with black lettering to front board and spine, top edge yellow, the rest untrimmed. Illustrated with five photographic plates including frontispiece of the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club club house, and black decorative boarders to introduce each sec- tion. A very good copy, with some small marks and dustiness on the boards and a little wear to the spine ends. [45918] £150 An anthology of magazine and newspaper articles from both sides of the Atlantic. Including photos of early period clubhouses in America. Murdoch 33.
5 . BARRIE, James HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE HAWICK GOLF CLUB. With List of Members, Constitution and Rules &c., appended. James Edgar, 1898. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth, lettered gilt on the spine and with gilt emblem of the Hawick Club to the upper cover. Top edge gilt. Twenty-eight illustrated plates with tissue guards. A very good copy indeed with slight fading to the spine, light rubbing to the extremities, and a small chip to page x. [45916] £375 An interesting history of this old Scottish club Murdoch 38.
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6 . BAUCHOPE, C. Robertson THE GOLFING ANNUAL Vol. II 1888-89 1888. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth with blind ruled bor- ders, gilt titles and vignette of a stick-man to upper cover, gilt titles and rules to spine. Five fold out black and white maps and black and white sketches. A very good copy, with damp mottling to the boards, both hinges splitting, and minor worming to the preliminary leaves. [45941] £375 More than just another annual because it was the first golf annual sup- ported by the golfing public and enjoyed yearly publication for 23 years until its demise in 1910. Murdoch 43.
7. CHAMBERS, Charles E.S. GOLFING A Handbook to The Royal and Ancient Game with List of Clubs, Rules, &c. also Golf- ing Sketches and Poems W. R. Chambers, 1887. First edition. 8vo. Olive cloth blocked black to the upper cov- er with gilt titles to the spine, blind borders to the lower cover and floral endpapers. Six aquatint plates, including a frontispiece of Tom Morris, and black and white illustrations in the text by Ranald Alexander and others. A near fine copy with only very slight wear to the extremities and an ownership inscription to the verso of the frontispiece. [45940] £600 Said to be ‘a lineal descendant’, though much enlarged and changed, of Rambling Remarks on Golf, edited by Charles Chambers’s father,
Robert in 1862. Murdoch 118
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8. CLARK, Robert GOLF: A ROYAL AND ANCIENT GAME R&R Clark 1875. First edition, thought to be one of 200 copies privately printed for subscribers. Small 4to. Original green cloth with gilt vignette title to the upper cover and lettered in gilt on the spine, filleted borders in gilt and black to upper cover, blind stamped to the rear cover. Top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black, with ornate gold border. Seventeen black and white plates, as well as head and tail pieces and initial letters. A superb, near fine copy. [45915] £1,500 Thought by Murdoch to be “one of the masterpieces of golf literature. It is also one of the most important contributions to the library of golf”. Murdoch 128.
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9. [CLARK, Robert (Printer)]; [The Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society] POEMS ON GOLF R. Clark, 1867. First edition, printed for private circulation. Small 4to. Original green horizontal ribbed cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and upper cover, design of a sheaf of clubs in gilt on the upper cover and in blind on the rear cover, all edges gilt. Wood engraved head and tail pieces throughout. A good copy, with some splits to the joints and staining to the upper corner of many of the pages, splitting to both hinges, but holding. A previous owner’s inscription, outlining the rarity of the book to the front pastedown and an early gift inscription to the half title. [45921] £1,250 A noted rarity, privately printed for subscribers. Only 58 subscribers are listed and it is unlikely that many more copies were printed. “This book is of great importance because it brought attention to some of the earlier poems which, but for their appearance here, might not have survived” [Murdoch]. Murdoch 129
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PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY DARWIN 10. DARWIN, Bernard GREEN MEMORIES Hodder & Stoughton, [1928]. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the upper cover and spine, in the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Darwin on the front free endpaper, “T. G. B. from B. D., April 1928.” Eight pho- tographic plates. A fine copy in the very good original dustwrap - per, which has had small chips to spine ends and edges restored. [37092] £1,500 T. G. B. is Darwin’s close friend Thomas Geoffrey Blackwell, the ded- icatee of Playing The Like, and a fellow member of Royal St. George’s. The first volume of memoir by the golf writer of whom Herbert War- ren Wind wrote on his induction into World Golf’s Hall of Fame, “to start at the beginning, Bernard Darwin is the greatest writer on golf the world has ever known. He is much more than that. He may be the greatest of all sportswriters.” Notably uncommon signed, and in a dustwrapper.
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12 . DALRYMPLE, W. GOLFER’S GUIDE To the Game and Greens of Scotland W. H. White & co., 1894. First edition. 8vo. Rebound in full red cloth, gilt titles to spine. The upper cover of the original cloth, lettered gilt and with black vignette, is laid on to the upper board. All edges red. Thirty one illustrations including black and white photographs and maps, and a fold out map to the rear. A good+ copy. Original cloth cov- er onlay rather worn at the upper corner, light red bleed to the upper part of the preliminary pages and a small closed tear to the fold out map. [45933] £400 Published annually from 1894-1899 (6 volumes)
11. DUNCAN, George : DARWIN, Bernard PRESENT-DAY GOLF Hodder & Stoughton, [1921]. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Il- lustrated with black and white photographs by G. W. Beldam. A very good copy indeed, faded a little to the spine. Library stamps of the Royal St. George’s Writing Room to the front pastedown and contents page. [37101] £150
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13. DARWIN, Bernard; ROUNTREE, Harry THE GOLF COURS- ES OF THE BRITISH ISLES Duckworth & Co., 1910. First edition, first issue binding, with gilt lettering and decora - tion to the upper board and the illustrator’s name misspelled “Rowntree”. Original dark green cloth with lettering in gilt and borders and decoration outlined in gilt. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Sixty-four full page plates by Harry Rountree. The illustrations are a mixture of watercolours and black and white images. A very good copy indeed, slightly cocked, with perforat- ed ‘Presentation Copy’ stamped on title page. [45914] £850 Peter Alliss and Barry Took, introducing the a new edition of the book in 1989, wrote “this book, first published in 1910, was the first compre- hensive hole-by-hole description of a wide selection of golf courses in Great Britain and Ireland, many of which, matured and revered today, were then just emerging from their native marsh and scrub.”
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14. FURBER, F.R. A COURSE FOR HEROES The Royal St George’s Golf Course, 1996. First edition. 4to. Limited issue, number 70 of 150 copies signed by the President, Captain and Editor. 4to. Bound in half green leather with gilt borders, and green cloth blind stamped with a crest to the upper cover, raised bands between gilt rules and gilt lettering to the spine, all edges gilt, in a green cloth slipcase accompanied by pictorial dustwrapper for the trade edition in its own green card folder. A Portrait frontispiece and a mixture of black and white and colour plates from photographs. A fine copy, in a near fine slipcase. [45937] £250 Royal St George’s was the first English course to host the Open Cham- pionship.
15. [GOLF] “CALAMO CURRENTE” [McHARDY, James] HALF HOURS WITH AN OLD GOLFER George Bell & Sons, 1895. First edition. 8vo. Original light brown cloth with elaborate gilt lettering and design to upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Four chromolithograph plates under tissue guards and 35 (main- ly full page) engravings of scenes and diagrams by G.A Laundy. A very good copy with some darkening to the spine which is cocked and has fraying to the spine ends. Library stamp in blind and previous owner’s name stamped in ink to front endpapers. [45923] £300 “This elegant volume should be every golfer’s ‘Companion,’ and its au- thor the laureate of golf... Mr Laundy’s illustrations reflect both the poetic and the practical aim of this pretty book on the art of golf.” [Sat- urday Review, 1895].
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16. HAMMERTON, J.A. THE RUBÁIYÁT OF A GOLFER Coun- try Life, 1946. First edition. 12mo. Green cloth boards in a pictorial green and red dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout by D.L. Ghilchik. A very good copy with a dusty mark on the top of the spine, in a
17. HUTCHINSON, Horace GOLF The Badminton Library Longmans, 1890. First edition. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt vignette and lettering on the spine. Illustrated in black and white, with numerous full page plates and woodcuts in the text. A near fine copy, a little faded on the spine. [37122] £250 Includes contributions by Andrew Lang, HSC Everard and AJ Balfour.
poor dustwrapper which has a long repaired split on the spine and a chip to the head of the spine. [45928] £60 A poetic take on the game of golf, comparing a long handicap golfer to a melan- cholic poet.
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18. HILTON, Harold H.; SMITH, Garden G. THE ROYAL AND ANCIENT GAME OF GOLF The London and Counties Press Association, 1912.
First edition, limited to 900 subscriber’s copies, this copy marked 492. Large 4to. Bound in publisher’s full red morocco with gilt dec- oration and lettering to the front board and spine. All edges gilt, with silk ribbon marker present. Colour frontispiece, two full-colour illustrations, two photogravures under tissue guards, two full page black and white illustrations and numerous black and white illustrations in the text, also head and tail pieces drawn by Harry Rountree. A very good copy with some wear to the head of the spine and corners and light scratches to the boards. Internally clean, with previous owner’s name on the verso free front end paper. [45931] £1,250 “One of the most magnificent books in the entire library of golf, comprehensive in content, very handsome in appearance and attractively illus- trated. It includes a listing of golf books published up to this date. Mr Hilton was one of the greatest of English golfers and succeeded Mr Smith as editor of golf illustrated , one of the oldest golf magazines.” [Murdoch] Murdoch, 348.
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19. HUTCHINSON, Horace G. BRITISH GOLF LINKS A Short Account of the Leading Golf Courses in the United Kingdom J. S. Virtue and Co., Ltd., 1897. First edition. 4to. Original olive pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, with pictorial design in black and brown. Printed on coated paper and pro- fusely illustrated throughout with photographic re- productions of golfers, golf courses and club houses. A very good copy indeed, with light spotting to the edges and minimal wear to the extremities. [45912] £950 Murdoch describes it as “one of the more elaborate books of the period”, one which takes the reader on a tour of famous links of Great Britain with illustrations, and also serves as an interesting commentary on the style of clubhouses being built in England and Scotland at the time.
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20. HUTCHINSON, Horace and others THE BOOK OF GOLF AND GOLFERS Longmans, 1899. New impression. 8vo. Original gilt-stamped red cloth, top edge gilt. Seventy-one photographic portraits across sixty-three plates. A very good copy indeed with contemporary ownership name to half title and light wear to the extremities. [45917] £175 A page for page reprint of the first edition of the same year. “Like many of the books that Mr. Hutchinson had a hand in, this is a complete review of the game, from a history of its development to a chapter on how to make a golf club, for those so bent. It also includes short biographical sketches of many of the leading players of the day.” [Murdoch] Murdoch 384.
21. HUTCHINSON, Horace G. THE GOLFING PILGRIM On Many Links. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth, lettered and decorated gilt to the upper cover and spine. Page edges untrimmed. A very good copy, with a toned spine and light marking to the covers. [45925] £300 A fictional account of a match played over many of the famous links in Britain. Murdoch 391.
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23 . JONES, Bobby BOBBY JONES “FLICKER” BOOK Flicker No. 11c Out the Rough and Putt Flicker Productions Ltd., [1930]. Flickers Sports Series. 5.5 x 7.5 cm. Pink card wrappers lettered in black. Each page a black and white photograph. A very good copy, slightly dusty wrappers with the usual wear to the corners through use and rusting around the staple, internally bright and clear. [45939] £75 Cine photographs in the form of a “flicker-book”, which when flicked shows Robert (Bobby) Tyre Jones Jr. golfing.
22. HUTCHINSON, Horace G. FIFTY YEARS OF GOLF Country Life, 1919. First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Thirty six photographic plates. A near fine copy, the spine ends a little rolled. Ownership inscription of Alexander Henry Elliot to front free endpaper. [37088] £250 Biographical reminiscences of the first English captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.
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24. LANGTON, Harry THOMAS HODGE THE GOLF ARTIST OF ST. ANDREWS Sports Design International, 2000. First edition, deluxe issue limited to 300 copies. 4to. Publisher’s full red padded leather with gilt titles and decoration on the front board and spine, with a ribbon page marker. In original red cloth slipcase that replicates the cover design in gilt. Printed on coated paper and profusely illustrated throughout with photographs re- lating to the St. Andrews Gold Course and the artistry of Thomas Lodge A fine copy in a fine cloth slipcase. [45913] £200 A biography of the talented Cornish golf artist, Thomas Hodge.
25. MARTIN, H.B. FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN GOLF Fore- word by Grantland Rice Dodd, Mead & Co., 1936. First edition. 8vo. Bound in recent full green morocco with gilt tooled borders to upper and lower boards, raised bands to the spine between gilt tooled rules, gilt title on red title label, and marbled endpapers, fore-edge untrimmed. Many black and white plates, comprising a mix of photographs and reproduc- tions of old newspaper articles and adverts. A very good copy. [45927] £150 “This is one of the outstanding American golf books, a comprehensive look back over the years.” [Murdoch] Murdoch 493.
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PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY KERR 26. KERR, John. THE GOLF BOOK OF EAST LOTHIAN Private, printed by T and A Constable, 1896. First edition, limited to 500 copies, of which this is 292, signed by the author. 4to. Original olive buckram, with gilt vignette and title to cover and spine, dark green endpapers. Further inscribed by the author, “to Professor Mackinnon who loves ‘The Royal and Ancient Game’ from John Kerr” on the front free endpa- pers. Portrait frontispiece, nine full page plates and many more illustrations in the text. A very good copy with some fading to the boards and wear to the head of the spine. Internally bright. [45919] £1,250 This is the first of the histories written of an area or club, and in- cludes reprints of many of the earlier pieces, the most important of which is “Golfiana” by Thomas Brown (1869) Murdoch 419.
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27. MALCOLM, David; CRABTREE, Peter E. TOM MORRIS OF ST ANDREWS The Colossus of Golf 1821-1908 Rhod McEwan at Glengarden Press, 2008. First edition. 4to. Deluxe subscriber’s issue, number 42 of 87 cop- ies, one for each year of Old Tom’s life, signed by the authors with the subscriber’s name on the title page. Original full green morocco with raised bands to the spine between gilt rules, gilt ti- tles, two red title labels, and blind stamped vignette of golf clubs to two compartments. Gilt dentelles to the front and rear turn- ins, silk endpapers, and a red marker ribbon. Pockets to the rear endpapers containing a facsimile scorecard and three facsimile letters. All housed in a green morocco slipcase. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. [45910] £1,250 Winner of the United States Golf Association Herbert Warren Wind Award for outstanding contributions to golf literature 2008.
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28. MILLER, T.D. FAMOUS SCOTTISH LINKS and Other Golf- ing Papers. R. & R. Clark, 1911. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Includes 8 blank leaves at rear for reader’s personal notes or, “Memoranda of Matches Played, &c.”. Photographic frontis of “Gowfin’ Charlie” and one further portrait plate of “Gillespie of Mountquhanie”. A near fine copy, with a small bump to the tail of the spine, but exceptionally bright and crisp. [45930] £850 “A book of reminiscences in which the author recalls the pleasure of playing over some of the more famous Scottish links.” [Murdoch]. Murdoch 524.
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29. TAYLOR, J.H. TAYLOR ON GOLF Impressions, Comments and Hints Hutchinson, 1902. First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth decorated in gilt with top edge gilt and others uncut. Illustrated throughout with 48 full page black and white plates. A very good copy indeed, with a lit- tle wear to the top and tail of the spine, tender hinges and plates on page 234 and 238 working loose. [45920] £375 The first book by one of England’s greatest ever golfers and a member of The Great Triumvirate.
30. TULLOCH, W.W. THE LIFE OF TOM MORRIS With Glimps- es of St Andrews and its Golfing Celebrities T. Werner Laurie, [1907]. First edition. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Twenty seven black and white illustrations. A very good copy, with a short split to the rear joint, and light wear to extremities, occasional spots of foxing. [45924] £750 Tom Morris was one of the all time golfing legends, winning the Open Championship four times at Prestwick, where all the early champion- ships were played. He was influential in golf course design and had an influence in many of the top golf courses in Scotland and further afield. Murdoch 794.
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31 . WODEHOUSE, P.G. THE HEART OF A GOOF Herbert Jen- kins Ltd., [1926]. First edition. Original green cloth lettered and illustrated in black. A fine copy. [44987] £225 Scarce. McIlvaine A36a
32. WODEHOUSE, P.G. A FEW QUICK ONES Herbert Jenkins, 1959. First UK edition. Original red cloth lettered in black, in pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with trivial wear to the corners and tape to the verso of the head of the spine. [44964] £150 Golfing stories incorporating some of Wodehouse’s best loved charac- ters, including Jeeves, Mr Mulliner, Ukridge and the Oldest Member. McIlvaine A82b
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33. WOOD, Harry B. GOLFING CURIOS AND “THE LIKE” With an Appendix Comprising of a “Bibliography of Golf,” etc. Sherratt & Hughes, 1910. First edition. Large 8vo. Rebound in full navy blue morocco with gilt lettering on the spine and boarders on both boards, top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed. Hand marbled end papers. Previous owner’s pencil notes, relating to the text. Numerous black and white plates. A fine copy. [45926] £450 The informative bibliography at the end of this book has been annotated in pencil with citations of more recent prices of the some of the books mentioned. “Mr. Wood was one of the early collectors of golfiana, which includes books, clubs, balls, medals, cups and prizes, equipment, etc. In the book are several illustrations of his collection and he gives detailed descrip- tions of a number of items.” - Murdoch Murdoch 878.
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