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1968ref. 87134New York: Golden Press 1968. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated by James J. Hulley. Some minor rubbing else a fine copy in pictorial boards. Golden Press hardcover books
1950ref. 337279Chicago: Rand McNally 1950. unbound. Pictorial roadmap. Color lithograph. Measures 18" x 40". This charming pictorial map contains thousands of tiny details including all the information necessary to plan the perfect Florida vacation in 1950. Produced by the Gulf Oil Company's Touring Bureau this map lists tourist destinations topographical features roads hunting and fishing information country and golf clubs and much more. Fish and wildlife are also shown pictorially each fish species accurately depicted and placed on the map where they are commonly found. On the verso is a mileage table a map of the southeastern U.S. from Indianapolis to Florida with a South Florida inset and maps of the Western section of Florida St. Petersburg and Tampa and Cuba. This special map is replete with detailed illustrations and cartoons showing off all Florida has to offer. In good condition some minor tears at original foldline intersections. Beautifully crisp image and vibrant colors. Rand McNally unknown books
1908ref. 40807Chicago Illinois 1908. Tall 8vo. Contemporary pale cloth with title stamped on spine. 6 338 pp with folding plates that are included in the pagination. Binding dusted text and plates clean. Very Good. President William Joyce informs "The Tremont & Gulf Railway Company is the outgrowth of the Tremont & Gulf Railroad which in its initial stages was merely a logging road with rather poor grades and alignment." He proudly recounts the Company's development. "The storied Tremont & Gulf Railway began life in 1902 when it laid rails from a Tremont Lumber Company railhead 9 miles from the town of Tremont to Winnfield Louisiana some 40 miles to the south. Various small expansions occurred up through 1908 when the original company the Tremont & Gulf Railroad went into foreclosure. The T&G Railway emerged as successor and promptly completed another branch of 20 miles. The shortline served a timber - rich region situated amid the mainlines of several prominent Louisiana carriers: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific; Illinois Central; Louisiana & Arkansas; Missouri Pacific. Nevertheless despite these advantages the pike lost money throughout its existence" web site of Hawkins Rails online. The Railway's original records "which had been found to be more or less incomplete and scattered" are organized compiled and printed here. OCLC 817757631 1- SMU as of March 2025. unknown books
ref. 7151Player Gary. Challenge Golf consent form documenting the broadcast-control procedures applied to televised competition featuring one of international golf's leading champions. The American Broadcasting Company form required Player to affirm that he had not received contest questions or answers before their use revealing how television producers formalized participant eligibility and program integrity through signed representations. The document records broadcast compliance through a contestant consent agreement demonstrating the mechanisms by which ABC sought to protect a competition program from undisclosed advance information and providing primary-source evidence for the study of sports television network regulation and performer participation. Player a South African professional rather than a United States golfer won the 1965 U.S. Open and became the first non-American to complete the modern career Grand Slam. Player Gary. Consent form for Challenge Golf. American Broadcasting Company n.d. One page. 8 by 11 inches. Headed "American Broadcasting Company" the document states in part "I have never 1 been given the questions and/or answers in advance of their use on the contest in such program." Player signed in blue ink "Gary Player." The quoted provision shows that the form addressed the integrity of competition programming rather than merely authorizing Player's appearance or use of his likeness. Two punch holes appear along the upper edge. Challenge Golf was an ABC television series built around matches involving Player and Arnold Palmer against other professional golfers; surviving program descriptions identify its 1963 broadcasts as combining competitive play commentary and prominent courses including Pebble Beach and Riviera. The present consent form illustrates how televised sport could be administered through the same disclosure and fairness procedures associated with other contest programming even when athletic play formed the principal attraction. Two punch holes at top; blue-ink signature remains clear and legible with no other defects reported. Very good. A revealing signed document connecting Gary Player's championship career with the regulatory and contractual framework of early televised golf. unknown books
1864ref. 94849New Orleans 1864. Paperback. Very Good. 8 unnumbered pages. 21 cm. Modest foxing and some light staining on outer leaves. Small stitchmarks indicates that this was previously sewed. "Invalid Battalion Corps d'Afrique" printed in small type in upper left corner of first page. Authorized establishment of an Invalid battalion for the Corps d'Afrique to be composed of "colored" tropps who by reason of wounds or sickness contracted in the line of duty are unfit for further field service. Most of this rare general order reprints the War Department's General Orders Nos 105 dated 4.28/63 and 139 dated 5/15/63. Most of General Order 139 consisted of lists of physical infirmities that did or didn't disqualify soldiers from serving in the Invalid Corps. The final provision in General Order No. 139 states that no officer or enlisted man would be entitled to any pension premium or bounty for enlistment or service in the Invalid Corps although such soldiers would receive other pay and allowances authorized for the U.S Infantry. paperback books
1983ref. 75708n.p. 1983. Paperback. Very Good. photos 60p. Wrapper. 28cm. Minor wear. Name and phone number in pencil on cover. Organization founded in 1954 of golf clubs organized by African Americans in California and other Western states. According to their 2022 website about 27 clubs including three asterisked as "predominantly female" clubs were members of this organization. paperback books
1902ref. 07156THE ONE BEFORE Scribners 1902 first edition a bright vg copy in pictorial cloth. A fantasy with golf being a strong component. Profusely illustrated. Scribners / Scribner's hardcover books
1903ref. 03215THE BRIGADIER IN ENGLAND in The Strand for April 1903 first edition about a quarter of the spine absent else a vg copy in wraps. An adventure of Etienne Gerard. Also contains THE FLIGHT OF A GOLFBALL by Broadbent. The Strand paperback books
1807ref. ST12145Edinburgh: Printed for Peter Hill et al. 1807. FIRST EDITION. 197 x 114 mm. 7 3/4 x 4 1/2". 2 p.l. v-viii 244 pp. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BLUE BOARDS paper label on spine edges untrimmed. In a felt-lined morocco-backed folding box. Four engraved plates three views and a city plan. Front free endpaper inscribed "Edin. 27th April 1807 / Agnes Cockburn / in memory / of the author." Donovan & Murdoch 270. Boards a little soiled front joint cracked rear joint starting at tail extremities with the expected considerable wear spine label chipped with a fourth of the letters gone but the boards still attached and the extremely insubstantial publisher's binding still appealing because of its original materials. Title page with a bit of offsetting from frontispiece isolated minor foxing in text other trivial imperfections but an excellent copy internally the untrimmed leaves bright fresh and clean with all of their ample margins intact. This is an invaluable early book on the history of St. Andrews in general and more specifically on St. Andrews as the home of the game of golf offered here in the publisher's original boards. It is the first work by the clergyman and polymath James Grierson M. D. 1768-1844 and the first printing of the first work on the ultimate destination of all those who consider golf sacred.The final chapter here entitled "The Company of Golfers" gives a short history of golf provides "an idea of the nature of this elegant amusement" and describes how the earliest golf balls called "featheries" on account of their stuffing were made. The book is dedicated to Lady Elizabeth Moncreiffe the daughter of the renowned military leader and politician George Ramsay 9th Earl of Dalhousie Governor General of British North America and later Commander-in-Chief of India wife to Sir Thomas Moncreiffe and a woman of considerable wealth. Grierson had served as tutor to her son Sir David Moncreiffe 6th Baronet 1788-1830 early in his career and apparently maintained a connection to the family. Our first edition is uncommonly found in publisher's boards. Printed for Peter Hill, et al. unknown books
1930ref. ST20235London: Harrods Ltd 1930s. FIRST EDITION. 76 x 51 mm. 3 x 2". 100 pp. Original green or orange paper wrappers side stitched titling on front cover and imprint on spine. In a custom-made folding buckram box with book wells for the three books and gilt-stamped marbled paper label inset on spine of the box. Consisting of three bound sets of 50 sequential photographs that when flipped either from back to front or front to back generate a stop motion animation of Bobby Jones demonstrating the proper form for executing a shot with various golf clubs see below. Advertisements on inside wrappers. Donovan & Murdoch 22610. One volume with portions of spine gone at either end with partial loss of imprint wrappers inevitably somewhat soiled corners a bit rounded as expected but still remarkably well preserved especially considering its inevitable hard use being entirely sound and with the photographs in excellent condition. This is a scarce grouping of some of the most charming sports as well as miniature books we've ever offered for sale. In the 1930s the famous London department store Harrods published a series of so-called sports "flicker" books of which these three are perhaps the most famous other sports books involved cricket tennis lacrosse soccer badminton swimming and greyhound racing. Our three "flicker" books when the pages are riffled with one's thumb or fingers show the famous smooth-swinging American golfer Bobby Jones executing shots with various clubs. The first book #11a in the Harrods series features the driver and the mashie. The modern equivalent for this latter piece of equipment is slightly elusive but the "mashie" is an iron club with considerable loft meant to hit a golf ball a relatively short distance with a high trajectory Jones' "driver" has the same meaning today as it did 90 years ago. The second book features shots with a "brassie" roughly equivalent to today's 3- or 4-wood and an "iron" also called a "driving iron" which is like today's 1- or 2-iron. The third book shows Jones putting and escaping from heavy rough with a high-lofted club like today's sand wedge. It is great fun--not to mention still instructive--to riffle through these photographs watching one of the world's most celebrated golf swings come to life complete with Jones' knickers white shirt and flapping tie. It is also a fact of some interest that this English series would feature an American player at a time when British dominance in golf was beginning to erode. Given the physical use to which these items have been subjected it is difficult to believe that they are still intact let alone that they are solid enough to be handled without worry. Harrods Ltd unknown books
1903ref. ST20237New York: The Gorham Manufacturing Co 1903. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 500 COPIES. 102 x 64 mm. 4 x 2 1/2". 4 p.l. 9-148 pp. CHARMING PUBLISHER'S LIMP SUEDE illustrated covers with a rotund golfer on front and a long-suffering caddy at rear top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. In a later glassine wrapper. Housed in a very sturdy custom-made buckram folding box with inlaid marbled spine label. Color floral and foliate headpieces tailpieces and title page and 16 DELIGHTFUL MOUNTED COLOR PLATES BY JOHN HASSALL. Front endpaper with the ownership inscription "W. P. Rockwell November 1905." Murdoch 888; Donovan & Murdoch 19030. Trivial smudges to the suede but A NEARLY PRISTINE COPY of this delightful little book an item that is simply never found this well preserved. This is a diminutive golf manual with immense charm and offered in the most immaculate condition possible. In a small-pocket format the book provides the golfer with the game's rules etiquette technical terms names of golf clubs and their various uses a list of American champions since the organization of the United States Golf Association and a roster of the "leading players in the United States." Accompanying the text are a group of quite charming colored plates done by John Hassall 1868-1948 an active and celebrated watercolorist poster designer and illustrator from 1895 onwards. Houfe calls him "an original and versatile designer." As can be seen in the present volume Hassall seems to have been influenced by "the flat colors and two-dimensional decorative quality of Japanese prints which he adapts to his own work with thick outline and careful patterning." Whatever the influence one can't help but smile when looking at his work. Hassall depicts golf costume through the ages here including golfers in kilts trousers cloaks knickers and other attire; he also shows us a pair of disarmingly shabby young caddies two women and a boy incongruously dressed in Napoleonic greatcoat and tricorn hat. The most memorable thing about this item is its condition: as a book intended to be put in one's pocket and as a volume that was never sturdy to begin with there is absolutely no explanation for how our copy has survived to the present day in its remarkable state of preservation. When this copy without its box was sold in 2004 at PBA Galleries the most prominent auction purveyor of golf books and equipment the catalogue called it "the finest copy we have ever offered of this exceedingly scarce and fragile book.". The Gorham Manufacturing Co unknown books
ref. B306567-1Tehran University of Tehran Press 2013. 503 3pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Wraps. Texts in English and Farsi. Tehran (University of Tehran Press), 2013. paperback books
ref. B306567-2Tehran University of Tehran Press 2013. 503 3pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Wraps. Texts in English and Farsi. Tehran (University of Tehran Press), 2013. paperback books
1891ref. 21946London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton 1891. Small 8vo pp. 123. Signed by "A.H. Murray" on the rear printer's imprint page. Former owner's name on front e.p. Spine faded o/w a nice copy. Poems about the golfing town of St. Andrews Scotland. Includes 2 golfing poems but not in Donovan and Murdoch. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton unknown books
1967ref. 268646New York: Coward-McCann 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Some pencil marks in margins off-setting to end papers else fine. Very good dust jacket some tearing and chipping of edges light browning of whites. Featuring an analysis of the putting strategies and techniques of many leading golf champions including Arnold Palmer Billy Casper Jack Nicklaus Gary Player and Bobby Jones. Coward-McCann hardcover books
1991ref. 36993n.p.: Ailsa Inc. Fine. 1991. Hardcover. 0940889366 . A reprint of the 1934 Windward House edition. Fine in green cloth. No dust jacket as issued. . Ailsa, Inc. hardcover books
2005ref. 34844Ann Arbor: Sports Media Group. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 1587262614 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Sports Media Group hardcover books
1993ref. 35097NY: Villard Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0394580052 . First printing. INSCRIBED by the author. Also laid in is a hand written note from the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Villard Books hardcover books
1989ref. 34165London: H. F. & G. Witherby. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0854931724 . Illustrated. First edition thus. Fine in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket. . H. F. & G. Witherby hardcover books
1997ref. 30164Chelsea: Sleeping Bear Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 1886947171 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Sleeping Bear Press hardcover books
1993ref. 25972Boston: Little Brown. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0316472980 . Foreword by Tom Watson. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Fourth printing. Fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Little, Brown hardcover books
1993ref. 26003Washington: Brassey's. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 002881021X . Second printing. Fine in a very near fine tiny closed edge tear at the top of the front panel dust jacket. . Brassey's hardcover books
1991ref. 20850n.p.: Ailsa Inc. Fine. 1991. Hardcover. 0940889366 . A reprint of the 1934 Windward House edition. Fine in green cloth. No dust jacket as issued. . Ailsa, Inc. hardcover books
2000ref. 10187NY: Galloway Editions. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0935112502 . Watercolors by Matthew Cook. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Galloway Editions hardcover books
1929ref. 010774Elmsford NY: Fairview Country Club 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ownership copy of George Harris President of the club from 1918 - 1920 with his holograph on pastedown. 8vo quarter orange cloth over oraneg and silver paper covered boars title pastedown front. 95 pages. Lots of photos of the Westchester County club whihc was incorporated in 1904 from what was the Tuckahoe Gold Course plus some pics of the original Decker Farm on which the course was constructed. Fairview Country Club hardcover books
