JACKLIN. THE CHAMPION'S OWN STORY. ILLUSTRATED BY ROY ULLYETT. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. 8vo. 192pp. Illustrated. Original cloth, without dust-wrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR inside the front endpaper. Autobiography of the golfer Tony Jacklin. [ref: 83727] £35.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
GOLF IS MY GAME. WITH A FOREWORD BY BERNARD DARWIN. London, Chatto & Windus, 1961. 8vo. 270pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in chipped dust-wrapper. [ref: 47031] £12.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
THE GOLFER'S COMPANION. BY BERNARD DARWIN, HENRY COTTON, ROBERT H-K BROWNING, A.H. PADGHAM, HYLTON CLEAVER, ELEANOR HELME, O.B. KEELER. R.C. ROBERTSON-GLASGOW AND PETER LAWLESS. EDITED BY PETER LAWLESS. ILLUSTRATED BY HARRY ROUNTREE. London, Dent, 1938. 8vo. xi+498pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in chipped dust-wrapper. Golf anthology. [ref: 83211] £24.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
GREAT GOLFERS IN THE MAKING. BEING AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS OF THE EARLY PROGRESS OF THE MOST CELEBRATED PLAYERS, WITH REFLECTIONS ON THE MORALS OF THEIR EXPERIENCE, BY JOHN L. LOW, HAROLD H. HILTON, HORACE G. HUTCHINSON, J.E. LAIDLAY, WALTER J. TRAVIS, JAMES ROBB, EDWARD BLACKWELL, HARRY VARDON, JAMES BRAID, J.H. TAYLOR, ALEXANDER HERD, WILLIE PARK, TOM MORRIS, JACK WHITE, Etc. Etc. EDITED BY HENRY LEACH. London, Methuen & Co., 1907. 8vo. xxi+299pp+40pp. publisher's advertisements. Frontispiece and 6 plates. Original printed cloth, gilt, covers faded. First edition. Recollections of famous golfers including James Braid, Horace Hutchinson, Tom Morris and Harry Vardon. Donovan & Murdoch, The Game of Golf and the Printed Work 1566-1985, 23740. [ref: 46931] £75.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
BOBBY LOCKE ON GOLF. London, Country Life, 1953 8vo. 196pp. Illustrated. Original cloth in slightly chipped dust-wrapper. Part autobiographical and part instructional. [ref: 76105] £65.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
GOLF. London, J.M. Dent, 1943. 8vo. xv+335pp. Illustrated. Original cloth. Instructional. [ref: 80567] £8.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
F.G. TAIT. A RECORD. BEING HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND GOLFING DIARY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG. London, Nisbet, [1900]. 8vo. 304pp. Photogravure frontispiece and 17 full-page plates. Original red cloth, gilt, spine worn. First edition. A biography of the amateur golfer Frederick Tait, who won the Amateur Championship twice. Published shortly after Tait was killed during the Second Boer War. This was the first biography of a golfer. [ref: 83200] £75.00 (including VAT) enquire buy |
OUT-DOOR GAMES. CRICKET & GOLF. London, 1901. 8vo. vii+252pp. Photogravure frontispiece and 8 fine coloured plates. Original decorative full vellum, gilt, edges untrimmed, printed on hand-made paper. With decorative endpapers by Arthur Rackham. Frontispiece foxed. LIMITED EDITION of 150 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper. A.J. GASTON'S BOOK, WITH HIS SIGNATURE OF OWNERSHIP on the limitation leaf and his business card laid down on the front endpaper. Gaston was a noted cricket author, collector and bookseller. A history of the development of cricket and golf. A volume in the Haddon Hall Library series. Padwick, 814. [ref: 35257] £225.00 enquire buy |
OUT-DOOR GAMES. CRICKET & GOLF. London, 1901. 8vo. vii+252pp. 9 plates. Original decorative cloth, gilt, covers soiled. With decorative endpapers by Arthur Rackham. A history of cricket and golf. Padwick, 814. [ref: 39155] £30.00 enquire buy |
PASTIMES AND PLAYERS. London, 1881. 8vo. (10)+203pp. Original decorative cloth, covers rubbed. Cricket, pages 1-24. Other sports covered include golf, tennis, football and archery. Padwick, 832. [ref: 23917] £50.00 enquire buy |