Heading: Author: Johnston, Alastair J. and James F. JohnstonTitle: The Chronicles of Golf: 1457 to 1857Place Published: [Cleveland]Publisher:[Privately printed]Date Published: [1993]Description: vii, 734 pp. Illustrated with 48 plates from photographs, paintings, drawings, facsimiles, engravings, maps, etc., most of which are in color; map endpapers showing the early golfing locations in Scotland. 27.8x20.8 cm. (11x8¼"), blue cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial jacket, slipcase with mounted color plate and lettered in gilt. No. 91 of 900 numbered copies. First Edition. Signed by both authors on the limitation page. The most comprehensive study of early literary references on golf. Developed by Alastair Johnston using a great deal of his own personal collection as reference. D&J J7660.Condition: Fine.
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Heading: Author: Vardon, HarryTitle: How to Play GolfPlace Published: LondonPublisher:Methuen & Co. Ltd. Date Published: [1912]Description: xvi, 298, [2] pp. 30 page publisher's catalog at rear. (8vo) original red cloth. First Edition. Author was "one of golf's great immortals, one who probably exerted as much influence on the game as any one man could." Murdoch 817; D&M 38370; D&J V2920.Condition: Spine leaning slightly, light wear; very good.
![Heading: Author: [McHardy, James] ''Calamo Currente''Title: Half Hours with an Old GolferPlace Published: LondonPublisher:Geo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7cf593ca-3f54-412e-9fb0-a66d011b9ba8/c90e8bcc-80e6-4247-d452-a9b67ffa20ab/468x382.jpg)
Heading: Author: [McHardy, James] ''Calamo Currente''Title: Half Hours with an Old GolferPlace Published: LondonPublisher:George Bell and SonsDate Published: 1895Description: viii, 184 pp. Illustrations throughout by G. A. Laundy, plus 4 chromolithograph plates with tissue-guards, including frontispiece. (12mo) original decoratively gilt-stamped and lettered red cloth, top edge gilt. First Edition. "A very handsome little volume which delivers, completely in verse, instruction, the rules and how to behave when playing the game." Murdoch 166; D&M 1020; D&J C30160.Condition: Spine leaning, light wear; ink stamp on verso of title page; very good.
Heading: Author: Peter, H. ThomasTitle: Reminiscences of Golf and GolfersPlace Published: EdinburghPublisher:James ThinDate Published: [1890]Description: 55 pp. 13.5x10.7 cm. (5½x4¼"), original flexible red cloth, gilt-lettered front cover with "Far and Sure" golfing vignette logo. First Edition. One of the most important early books on golf history, providing an interesting look into the past and early history of the game. Comprised largely of the author's fifty years in golf including stories, great personalities of nineteenth-century Scottish golf and of particular note is one of the most precise descriptions of the manufacture of a feathery ball. Ink name "W.S. Colville" on front endpaper. The 1903-04 Golfing annual identifies W.S. Colville as Captain of the Edinburgh University Golf Club and gives mention of Colville having beaten Bernard Darwin on the 17th green in the third round of the 1903 Amateur Championship. Murdoch 597; D&M 3730; D&J P10180.Condition: Cloth a touch sunned and with a few small spots; near fine.
Heading: Author: Darwin, BernardTitle: The Golf Courses of the British IslesPlace Published: LondonPublisher:Duckworth & CoDate Published: [1910]Description: [8], 254 pp. Illustrated with plates (mostly in color) from paintings by Harry Rountree; printed tissue-guards. (8vo) original green cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. Advertisement for the sale of the original drawings for this volume tipped in at front. Darwin's famous book covering the courses of Scotland, England and Ireland. Murdoch notes that "The illustrations, from original water colors, help to make this one of the fine books in the golf library, setting a high standard of excellence that Mr. Darwin would never fail to meet in his later books." -Murdoch 181; D&M 14410; D&J D7360.Condition: Spine leaning, light wear; foxing; very good.
![Heading: Author: [Clark, Robert, editor]Title: Golf: A Royal & Ancient GamePlace Published: EdinburghPublisher:R. & R. ClarkD](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7cf593ca-3f54-412e-9fb0-a66d011b9ba8/924f7dc1-68c9-4e5a-a2dd-4b5c343bbbc4/468x382.jpg)
Heading: Author: [Clark, Robert, editor]Title: Golf: A Royal & Ancient GamePlace Published: EdinburghPublisher:R. & R. ClarkDate Published: 1875Description: xxi, 284 pp. With 9 plates from paintings, engravings, etchings, etc., including 2 duotone lithographs, 1 color plan of the golf course over St. Andrew's Links and frontispiece, with tissue-guards; plus numerous wood engravings and facsimiles throughout the text; title page with decorative gilt margins; decorative initials. Illustrations by Clark Stanton, C.A. Doyle and G. Aikman. (4to) original gilt-decorated green cloth. First Trade Edition. An important and scarce first edition. "Widely regarded as one of the most significant, as well as best produced, early books on the history of golf, Clark's work is a compilation of the earliest literature on the game. In assembling the book, Clark, a well-known Edinburgh printer, collected early press reports, biographical sketches, significant acts of Parliament, municipal records, diaries, and extracts from the minutes of the earliest golf clubs. The book also contains obituaries of...Alan Robertson and Tom Morris, Jr." Murdoch 128; D&M 900; D&J C12760. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity.Condition: Light wear to cloth, hinges cracked; very good.
Heading: Author: Hutchinson, Horace G.Title: Famous Golf LinksPlace Published: LondonPublisher:Longmans, GreenDate Published: 1891Description: x, 201 + [2] ad pp. Contributions by A. Lang, H. S. C. Everard, T. R. Clark and others. Illustrated with 18 plates from paintings and photographs by C. J. Emeny, H. P. Hopkins, T. Hodge and H. S. King, including frontispiece with tissue-guard; plus several wood engravings within the text. (8vo) original decorative gray cloth, front cover with brown stamped vignette scene with windmill in center, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in brown, original black endpapers, page edges untrimmed. First Edition. A pioneering work by Hutchinson, this was the first volume to employ narrative and illustrations in describing famous British golf venues. Murdoch 386; D&M 2960; D&J H29860. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity.Condition: Spine darkened, light wear, front hinge cracking; very good.
Heading: Author: Hopkinson, CecilTitle: Collecting Golf Books 1743-1938: Aspects of Book-CollectingPlace Published: LondonPublisher:ConstableDate Published: [1938]Description: vii, 56 pp. + several blank pages throughout (as issued). (12mo) original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original green jacket with black lettering. First Edition. The bibliography which Joe Murdoch consulted while preparing his own important bibliography. Rarely seen with jacket. "The one and only definitive study of early golf literature...It is of great value to the golf book collector and represents the best guide possible for someone contemplating a golf library" - Murdoch 355; D&M 21410; D&J H21880. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity.Condition: Jacket price clipped and a touch browned; fine in a near fine jacket.
Heading: Author: Nicklaus, Jack with Herbert Warren WindTitle: The Greatest Game of All: My Life in GolfPlace Published: New YorkPublisher:Simon & SchusterDate Published: [1969]Description: 416 pp. Foreword by Robert (Bobby) T. Jones, Jr. Jacket. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo. Cloth, pictorial jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Signed on the dedication page by Jack Nicklaus as well as his father Charlie Nicklaus and his wife Barbara Nicklaus, to whom the book is dedicated. D&M 65170; D&J N13690.Condition: Jacket chipped; light wear to volume; very good.
![Heading: Author: Mackenzie, Dr. A[lister J.] Title: Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Green-KeepingPlace](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7cf593ca-3f54-412e-9fb0-a66d011b9ba8/af0cb56c-0a11-42bb-a043-15877ebd8da5/468x382.jpg)
Heading: Author: Mackenzie, Dr. A[lister J.] Title: Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Green-KeepingPlace Published: LondonPublisher:Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent Date Published: [1920]Description: 135, [1] pp. Introduction by H.S. Colt. Illustrated with several plates from photographs; figure drawings of course maps. (12mo) original green cloth lettered in black. First Edition. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To C.J. Gilbert with the author's compliments. Nov. 1922." An April 1902 issue of Golf Illustrated notes a C.J. Gilbert elected captain of Frinton-on-Sea Golf Club. Important and classic golf architecture title, which contains four short essays on golf course design by one of the greats in his field. Dr. Mackenzie "is recognized as the most influential golf course architect of the early twentieth century...Mackenzie's reputation was secured with the publication...of his seminal work 'Golf Architecture,' in which he set forth 13 rules for successful design" - D&J M2890; D&M 24890.Condition: Lightly worn, endpapers browned; very good.
Heading: Author: Everard, H.S.C. Title: A History of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club St. Andrews 1754-1900Place Published: Edinburgh Publisher:William BlackwoodDate Published: 1907Description: xi, 306 pp. Illustrated with numerous plates from photographs and paintings; plus 9 color plates with tissue-guards. (4to) 25.5x18.5 cm. (10x7½"), original decorative green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. The first written history of St. Andrews Golf Club and, as Murdoch states, "a monumental effort of original research and one that is most readable, even today." The illustrations include some of the first in color of golf. Murdoch 237; D&M 16090; D&J E8890.Condition: Spine sunned, edges worn, rear hinge cracked; two inscriptions on half title; foxing; very good.
![Heading: Author: [Fairlie, Walter Edwin]Title: The Old Golf Course of St. Andrews: Plans, with Names of Holes and BunkersPlac](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7cf593ca-3f54-412e-9fb0-a66d011b9ba8/3016eec1-d4c2-45f9-8659-d7f5a971ca6a/468x382.jpg)
Heading: Author: [Fairlie, Walter Edwin]Title: The Old Golf Course of St. Andrews: Plans, with Names of Holes and BunkersPlace Published: St. AndrewsPublisher:W.C. Henderson & SonDate Published: [1908]Description: Illustrated with 9 plans printed in red & black, each plan showing two holes. 7x3¼", flexible green cloth printed in black. First Edition. This was the first of many similar books and booklets to be published over the years that planned and designed to help the golfer find his or her way around the Old Course with the least amount of trouble and strokes. D&M 16210; Murdoch 238.Condition: Light soiling and wear to wrappers, pen note on front panel; scattered finger soiling, tape remnant on front paste-down, scores written in pencil on rear paste-down; very good.
Heading: Author: Park, WillieTitle: The Art of PuttingPlace Published: EdinburghPublisher:J. & J. Gray & Co.Date Published: 1920Description: [8], 47 pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs. 8vo. Gilt-lettered red cloth, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, original maroon endpapers. First Edition. Park was a great early putter and although the book is rather short (47 pages), it is quite significant, and this is the scarce first edition. Other cloth colors of blue and green were also issued. Murdoch 589; D&M 28680; D&J P4810.Condition: Spine sunned, light wear; very good.
![Heading: Author: Darwin, BernardTitle: A Round of Golf on the LNER [London & North Eastern] Railway]Place Published: [York]Pu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7cf593ca-3f54-412e-9fb0-a66d011b9ba8/f1d32e4f-0296-4eb9-88fe-6cf41f1a6b67/468x382.jpg)
Heading: Author: Darwin, BernardTitle: A Round of Golf on the LNER [London & North Eastern] Railway]Place Published: [York]Publisher:[Ben Johnson]Date Published: [c.1925]Description: 127 pp. Illustrated from photographs throughout; charts in the rear. (8vo) original red cloth, lettered in black. First Edition. Published by the LNER Railway to publicize and encourage travel by train to the golf courses in Britain served by their lines. Murdoch 192; D&M 13910; D&J D4090. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity.Condition: Leaning, light wear, endpapers browned, previous owner's name; very good.
Heading: Author: Gillon, Stair A.Title: The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield, 1891-1914Place Published: EdinburghPublisher:Privately PrintedDate Published: 1946Description: 59 pp. (8vo) original wrappers. First Edition. "A beautifully written history of the world's oldest golf club from the time the Club moved from Mussulburgh to Muirfield". - (Murdoch). Very rare, this is only the second copy that PBA has offered. Murdoch, pp. 92-3; D&M 17960; D&J G8080.Condition: Wrappers lightly worn and a touch browned; very good.
![Heading: Author: [Stewart, T. Ross, editor]Title: Lays of the Links: A Score of ParodiesPlace Published: EdinburghPublisher:D](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7cf593ca-3f54-412e-9fb0-a66d011b9ba8/dfcb771b-9782-4ae8-cbba-605c2c1412fe/468x382.jpg)
Heading: Author: [Stewart, T. Ross, editor]Title: Lays of the Links: A Score of ParodiesPlace Published: EdinburghPublisher:David DouglasDate Published: 1895Description: [4], 68, [1] pp. (12mo) original green cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition. Twenty verses parodying famous poems by adding golf to their lines. The author identified in holograph script on the title page, perhaps in his hand. D&M 4400; D&J S37240. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity.Condition: Just slight wear; fine.
![Heading: Author: Adamson, H[enry]Title: The Muses Threnodie; or, Mirthful Mournings on the Death of Mr. Gall. Containing a va](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7cf593ca-3f54-412e-9fb0-a66d011b9ba8/9918e262-424e-4496-8974-99072a2018a2/468x382.jpg)
Heading: Author: Adamson, H[enry]Title: The Muses Threnodie; or, Mirthful Mournings on the Death of Mr. Gall. Containing a variety of Pleasant Poetical Descriptions, Moral Instructions, Historical Narrations, and Divine Observations, with the most remarkable Antiquities of Scotland, especially of PerthPlace Published: PerthPublisher:Printed by George JohnstonDate Published: 1774Description: 2 volumes in 1. xxii, [2], 261, [3 blank]; 200 pp. Additional notes and observations on Perth by James Cant. Lacking the engraved folding map frontispieces. (8vo) 17.5x11.5 cm. (6¾x4½), period full calf, later rebacking, spine stamped in blind, red leather label. Second Edition. Originally published in 1638, Adamson's Muses Threnodie was the first book to contain a reference to the game of golf, in two lines of a poem that read "and yee, my clubs, you must no more prepare/to make your bals flee whistling in the aire." This second edition, published almost 150 years later, contains a footnote to these two lines and a reference to playing golf at Perth, where Adamson was born. This is the variant with the title page only for the first volume, without a volume number. Scarce. Murdoch p.10; D&M 140; D&J A3090. Condition: Rubbed, bookplate; lacking maps; very good.
Heading: Author: Berry, Warner BottTitle: Scotsman's DreamPlace Published: San FranciscoPublisher:Privately Printed [at the Arion Press]Date Published: 2002Description: [6], 527 pp. Illustrated with golf course plans showing the complete and imaginative 18-hole golf course from drawings by Christopher Monti and Andrew Berry; frontispiece drawing by Andrew Berry; decorative map endpapers of the golf course for 2000 (front endpapers of the MacKenzie Map by Christopher Monti and rear endpapers by Darryl T. Roberson and Christopher Monti). 27.8x20 cm. (11x8"), tartan patterned cloth in green, black and yellow colors, spine lettered in yellow, green cloth slipcase with paper spine label. No. 876 of 1000 copies designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem with Blake Riley at the Arion Press. First Edition. Signed by the author in the colophon. An imaginative work that involves the three greatest golf course architects in the history of the game, A.W. Tillinghast, Alister MacKenzie, and Donald Ross. These men hold a secret "meeting of the minds" in March, 1933. They design the plans for the ultimate golf course to give to a wealthy Scotsman who is told not to have the course revealed and built until the year 2000. According to this work of fiction, these three greats want to prove to the golfing world of the new millennium that classic designs will always surpass all other designs, regardless of when they are built. D&J B15220.Condition: Fine.
Heading: Author: Olman, John M. & Morton W.Title: Olman's Guide to Golf Antiques & Other Treasures of the Game. Subscriber's EditionPlace Published: Cincinnati, OHPublisher:Market Street PressDate Published: [1992]Description: xii, 267 + [6] "List of Subscribers" pp. Foreword by Hale Irwin. Illustrated from numerous photos, facsimiles, reproductions from book covers, etc., including some in color. 10x7, full gilt-lettered navy blue calf, publisher's slipcase with a pictorial cover label. No. 129 of 250 hand-numbered copies. "Subscriber's Edition." First Edition. Signed by John and Morton Olman and by Hale Irwin on the limitation page. Comprehensive and fascinating guide to golf collectibles.Condition: Fine.
Heading: Author: Evans, Charles (Chick), Jr.Title: Chick Evans' Golf Book: The Story of the Sporting Battles of the Greatest of all Amateur GolfersPlace Published: New York / ChicagoPublisher:For Thomas E. Wilson by The Reilly & Lee Co.Date Published: [1921]Description: 343 pp. Illustrated with 65 plates from photographs. (8vo), original decoratively embossed brown cloth stamped in gilt, red, green and white, marbled endpapers, edges untrimmed, top edge gilt. No. 206 of 999 copies of a special "Subscription Edition." First Edition. Signed by Charles Evans, Jr. on the limitation page, as issued. Murdoch 230; D&M 15990; D&J E8590.Condition: Binding lightly worn, slight separation in gutter at limitation leaf; very good.
Heading: Author: Hutchinson, Horace, editorTitle: British Golf Links: A Short Account of the Leading Golf Links of the United Kingdom with Numerous Illustrations and PortraitsPlace Published: LondonPublisher:J.S. VirtueDate Published: 1897Description: [2], viii, 331 + v ad pp. Illustrated from numerous photographs and engravings throughout. (Folio) 39.5x28.5 cm (15½x11"), original cream colored japon wrappers, titled in gilt. Housed in a custom green cloth box. No. 90 of 250 copies. First Edition. The rare limited large paper edition with wider margins. This is one of the most elaborate books of the period, lavishly illustrated with remarkable photographs, etc. It also serves as an interesting commentary on the styles of clubhouses built at that time in England and Scotland. It was published in wrappers with the expectation that purchasers would bind to their own tastes. As a result, copies in the original state are very uncommon. A superb example of the best issue of one of the key books in its field. Murdoch 385; D&M 2940; D&J H28210. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity.Condition: Light wear and soiling to wrappers; internally fine.
Heading: Author: Collett, GlennaTitle: Ladies in the RoughPlace Published: LondonPublisher:Alfred A. KnopfDate Published: 1929Description: 208 pp. Introduction by Bobby Jones. Illustrated with several plates from photographs. (8vo), salmon-orange colored cloth. First English Edition. An autobiographical account of Miss Collett's great career up to this date. She has, as all golfers know, continued to play wonderful golf and to contribute to the glory of the game" - Murdoch. D&J C16210.Condition: Spine sunned, light wear; very good.
Heading: Author: Smith, CharlesTitle: The Aberdeen Golfers: Records & ReminiscencesPlace Published: LondonPublisher:Published Privately for the AuthorDate Published: 1909Description: xi, [1], 168 pp. Numerous illustrations from photos, paintings, drawings, awards, course maps, including 6 full-page plates. 9½x7¼, original armorial gilt-stamped olive-green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. No. 30 of 150 copies printed by Neill & Co., Edinburgh. First Edition. One of the more significant and important golf club history books, done with a very small limitation. Murdoch 703; D&M 34860; D&J S23020. Bookplate of Archie Baird, curator of the Heritage of Golf Museum in East Lothian, Scotland. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity.Condition: Spine sunned, light wear; light foxing; near fine.
Heading: Author: Wood, Harry B.Title: Golfing Curios and "The Like." With an Appendix comprising a "Bibliography of Golf," etc.Place Published: LondonPublisher:Sherratt & HughesDate Published: 1911Description: x, 151, [3], vi pp. + plates. Illustrated with all 35 plates from photographs, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. (4to) 29x23 cm. (11½x9"), vellum backed spine, green cloth, spine in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, original green cloth dust jacket. One of 150 copies. First (Subscriber's) Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half title to Mr. Wm. R. Aitken "With kind regards of the Author. Harry B. Wood, November, 1911." With the list of subscribers in the rear giving the limitation statement: "the list of first subscribers to the present edition, which is limited to 150 copies...". The first to attempt to gather a listing of golfiana (books, balls, clubs, cups, medals, prizes, etc.) in book form - Wood was one of the earliest collectors of such items. Wood's chapter on books gives extensive descriptions of the predecessors of golf, Kolf and Jeu de Mail, as well as other important early volumes on the game. Murdoch 878; D&M 40700; D&J W22450.Condition: Jacket lightly worn and soiled; light wear to edges; endpapers foxed; very good.
Heading: Author: Donovan, Richard E. and Rand Jerris Title: The Game of Golf and the Printed Word 1566-2005. A Bibliography of Golf Literature in the English LanguagePlace Published: Endicott, NY Publisher:Castalio PressDate Published: 2006Description: 2 volumes. Vol. I: A-L; Vol. II: M-Z, plus index. 27.7x21.5 cm. (11x8¼"), blue gilt-lettered cloth, housed together in publisher's slipcase. First Trade Edition. A must for any collector of golf literature. The update of the most comprehensive reference guide on golf literature, containing over 15,000 entries, more than three times the previous edition (Donovan & Murdoch) in 1987. Includes hundreds of previously undiscovered publications from 1566-1985, plus works published up to an including 2005. Organized in alphabetical order by author (or subject if no author) and includes an index of club histories organized by state and country. Contains annotations for certain select titles, authors or major golf figures. The final golf reference from Dick Donovan, truly a pioneer the golf collecting world.Condition: Fine.
Heading: Author: Ellis, Jeffery B.Title: The Clubmaker's Art: Antique Golf Clubs and Their HistoryPlace Published: [Oak Harbor, WA]Publisher:Zephyr Productions Inc.Date Published: [1997]Description: 576 pp. Foreword by Karen Bednarski (Director, World Golf Hall of Fame, Curator at USGA Museum from 1989-1996). Illustrated from 800 full-color photographs depicting more than 640 antique clubs. (4to) 30.8x22.5 cm (12x9"), original padded black leatherette, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, publisher's matching gilt-lettered black slipcase. No. 94 of 400 copies. First Edition. Signed by author on the limitation page, as issued. Reveals the evolution of the game as well as combining historical information with entertaining anecdotes and quotations. Also, describes in detail more than 1000 rare and innovative clubs, and their inventors. D&J E5560.Condition: Fine.
![Heading: Author: [Ito, Cho]Title: Golfers' Treasures, Being an Alphabetical Arrangement of Theories and Hints from Great Golf](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7cf593ca-3f54-412e-9fb0-a66d011b9ba8/cdd21de5-0f64-4732-c1de-7e2171bcf638/468x382.jpg)
Heading: Author: [Ito, Cho]Title: Golfers' Treasures, Being an Alphabetical Arrangement of Theories and Hints from Great GolfersPlace Published: LondonPublisher:St. Catherine PressDate Published: 1925Description: [6], 312 pp. Foreword by Bernard Darwin. Some figure drawings. (8vo) original gray cloth-backed boards, paper spine and cover labels. First Edition. "This is a beautifully printed and produced book in which, as the title hints, extracts are taken from a number of previously published books and magazine articles and arranged alphabetically by golf subject" -Murdoch 398; D&M 22190; D&J I3730. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity.Condition: Minor wear, some foxing to page edges; near fine.
Heading: (Gorham Golf Book)Author: Title: The Gorham Golf BookPlace Published: New YorkPublisher:The Gorham Manufacturing Co.Date Published: 1903Description: 148 pp. Illustrated with 16 tipped-in color plates by John Hassal, plus numerous color decorations throughout, including title page; attached red ribbon bookmark. 10x6 cm. (4x2½"), original pictorial flexible and soft calf, top edge gilt, housed in a custom calf slipcase. First Edition. Rare and important golf book, with charming illustrations by John Hassal. D&M 19030; D&J G32380.Condition: Edges chipped and rubbed, rear flyleaf lacking large corner; very good.
Heading: Author: Tillinghast, A.W.Title: The Mutt and Other Golf Yarns (A New Cobble Valley Series)Place Published: [Philadelphia]Publisher:[Privately Printed]Date Published: 1925Description: 105 pp. Illustrated by Ross Morley. 18.8x12.5 cm. (7¼x5"), original gilt-lettered red cloth. First Trade Edition. Inscribed and signed by Tillinghast on the front free endpaper. "A souvenir of a most enjoyable dinner at the Westmoreland Club, Wilkes Barre, March 29, 1932. with the appreciation of A.W. Tillinghast." A scarce and increasingly popular and sought after title, written by one of the greatest golf architects of all time. D&M 36940; D&J T9490.Condition: Very light wear; near fine.
Heading: Author: Hamilton, DavidTitle: Golf: Scotland's Game - The St Andrews EditionPlace Published: KilmacolmPublisher:The Partick PressDate Published: 1998Description: [6], 269 pp. Profusely illustrated from reproductions, facsimile documents, paintings, photographs, golf course maps, etc., taken from old sources; folding facsimile 1815 map of Scotland and decoratively embossed leather bookmark, placed inside the rear pocket sleeve, as issued. Endpapers made at the Griffen Mill, Glastonbury, from grass cut from Leith Links (home of the world's first golf club). (4to) 27.5x22 cm. (11x8¾"), tan morocco-backed cloth, gilt rampant lion motif stamped on the front cover, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's tan cloth slipcase with gilt rampant lion stamped on a cover. No. 81 of 350 copies, bound in morocco at the Fine Bindery, Wellingborough. "The St Andrews Edition." First Edition. Signed by the author on the limitation page. D&J H4030. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity.Condition: Fine.
Heading: (Nicklaus, Jack)Author: Peper, George, editorTitle: Golf in America: The First One Hundred Years - Presentation EditionPlace Published: New York/Richmond, VAPublisher:Abrams/ US Historical SocietyDate Published: [1988]Description: 304 pp. Illustrated from photographs, etc. (4to) original gilt-decorated and lettered brown leather, publisher's gilt-stamped cloth slipcase. No. 18 of 500 copies of the "Presentation Edition." First Edition. Signed by Jack Nicklaus on the special limitation leaf/printed label. The 500 copies of the Presentation Edition were signed by either Nicklaus or fellow golfing great Arnold Palmer. D&J P9040.Condition: Fine.
Heading: (British Open Championship)Author: Title: The Open Championship, 1984-2013. The first 16 years each signed by the tournament champion.Place Published: Various placesPublisher:Date Published: 1984-2013Description: 30 consecutive annual volumes. (Small 4to) original cloth or boards and dust jackets. The 1984-1999 volumes each signed by the tournament champion. The 1984, 1987, 1988, and 1990-2001 volumes each have laid in a limited edition menu from the annual Open dinner of the British Golf Collectors Society, limited to 125 copies or fewer. Also includes a duplicate of the 2002 annual. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity. The following years signed by the Champion: 1984. Seve Ballesteros. 1985. Sandy Lyle. 1986. Greg Norman. 1987. Nick Faldo. 1988. Seve Ballesteros. 1989. Mark Calcavecchia. 1990. Nick Faldo. 1991. Ian Baker-Finch. 1992. Nick Faldo. 1993. Greg Norman. 1994. Nick Price. 1995. John Daly. 1996. Tom Lehman. 1997. Justin Leonard. 1998. Mark O'Meara. 1999. Paul Lawrie. 2000-2013. Not signed. Condition: Fine.
Heading: Author: Darwin, BernardTitle: The Royal Blackheath Golf ClubPlace Published: LondonPublisher:The Golf Clubs AssociationDate Published: [c.1932]Description: 28 pp. Photographs and advertisements. 19x12.5 cm. (7½x5"), blue saddle-stitched wrappers printed in dark blue. "The Royal Blackheath Golf Club is, as all the world knows, the oldest golf club in the world..." -pg. 5. This copy appears to date from circa 1932 with the list of champions ending there. PBA Galleries has previous offered a 1938 edition but this is the first of the present edition we have encountered. D&J D6280 (for 1938 edition).Condition: Ink stamp on front with previous owner's name and 1947 date, minor wear; near fine.
Heading: Author: Nash, George C.Title: Letters to the Secretary of a Golf ClubPlace Published: LondonPublisher:Chatto & WindusDate Published: 1935Description: x, [2], 196 pp. Illustrations by Christopher Millett. 19x12.5 cm. (7¼x4¾"), green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. First Edition. Classic British golf humor, the first in a trilogy. D&J N1780; D&M 27340.Condition: Jacket a bit browned, lightly chipped; spine leaning; very good.
Heading: Author: Parrish, Samuel L.Title: Some Facts, Reflections, and Personal Reminiscences Connected with the Introduction of the Game of Golf into the United States, more especially as associated with the formation of the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club (Incorporated September 22, 1891)Place Published: [Southampton]Publisher:[Privately Printed]Date Published: [1923]Description: 20 pp. Illustrated from a photo and a water color sketch. 25.5x18 cm (9¾x7"), printed wrappers. First Edition. "A valuable addition to the shelf in that it records some first-hand impressions of the start and growth of golf in America" - Murdoch 591; D&M 28720; D&J P5260.Condition: Wrappers soiled with some tears, rust stains, interior detached, creasing; contents still nice, about good to very good.
Heading: Author: Colville, JamesTitle: The Glasgow Golf Club, 1787-1907Place Published: GlasgowPublisher:John Smith and SonDate Published: 1907Description: xi, 172 pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs. 18.5x12.3 cm. (7¼x5"), gilt-lettered red cloth, top edge gilt. First Edition. "A fine history of this old, old Scottish club" -Murdoch 142; D&M 12820; D&J C17050. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity.Condition: Light wear to cloth, a few small spots on front endpaper; very good.
Heading: Author: Hutchinson, Horace G. & others Title: The Book of Golf and GolfersPlace Published: LondonPublisher:Longmans, Green & Co.Date Published: 1900Description: xvi, 317 pp. Contributions by Amy Pascoe, H.H. Hilton, J.H. Taylor, H.J. Whigham, and Sutton & Sons. Illustrated with 71 photographic plates, including a sepia tone frontispiece. (8vo) original red cloth with gilt-stamped vignette on the front cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. New Impression. Important golf history, architecture, famous player sketches, club making and instructional material supported by some 70 photographs. "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" - Murdoch 384; D&M 3110; D&J H29590 (for first edition of the prior year).Condition: Spine sunned, light wear; foxing; very good.
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Heading: Author: Woods, TigerTitle: How I Play GolfPlace Published: New YorkPublisher:Warner BooksDate Published: [2001]Description: Foreword by Earl Woods. 306 pp. Illustrated. (4to) original green cloth, dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Signed on the half title by the second winningest player of all time on the PGA Tour, trailing the great Sam Snead's record by only three wins.Condition: Fine.
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Heading: Author: Taylor, J[ohn] H[enry]Title: Taylor on Golf: Impressions, Comments and HintsPlace Published: LondonPublisher:Hutchinson & Co.Date Published: 1902Description: viii, 328 pp. Illustrated with 48 plates from photographs specially taken for this work, including frontispiece with "Taylor's Grip." (8vo) original gilt-decorated green cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition. Taylor was a great English golfer whose contributions to the game went far beyond his remarkable playing ability. Murdoch 763; D&M 36430; D&J T3040. Provenance: From the collection of Joseph P. Garrity.Condition: Some faint spots to cloth, endpapers foxed; very good.
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Heading: (St. Andrews Golf Club)Author: Bennett, [Dr.] AndrewTitle: The St. Andrews Golf Club Centenary, 1843-1943; Being the Hundred Years' Record of an historic Fife Golf ClubPlace Published: St. AndrewsPublisher:W.C. Henderson & Son, Ltd.Date Published: [1944]Description: 75 pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs. (8vo) original blue paper wrappers. First Edition. Murdoch 58; D&M 6720; D&J B13240.Condition: Light wear, small spots on rear; very good.
Heading: Author: Darwin, BernardTitle: The Royal Liverpool ClubPlace Published: LondonPublisher:The Golf Clubs AssociationDate Published: 1924Description: 28 pp. Illustrations from photographs; advertisements. 18x12 cm (7¼x4¾") original saddle-stitched gray wrappers. A very rare volume from Darwin's series of club handbooks. Donovan & Jerris (D6430) cite a 1922 edition but WorldCat locates no copies of any edition and this is the first copy of this title to be offered by PBA Galleries.Condition: Just the slightest wear at corners; still fine.
![Heading: Author: Jones [Robert Tyre] Bobby, [Jr.]Title: Some Tips from Bobby JonesPlace Published: [New York]Publisher:A.G. S](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7cf593ca-3f54-412e-9fb0-a66d011b9ba8/931038b2-2ed7-4b52-a370-b8532e010479/468x382.jpg)
Heading: Author: Jones [Robert Tyre] Bobby, [Jr.]Title: Some Tips from Bobby JonesPlace Published: [New York]Publisher:A.G. Spalding & Bros.Date Published: [c.1935]Description: [24] pp. (including covers). Illustrated from photographs, including ads for Spalding golf attire and accoutrements. 15.3x8.2 cm. (6x3¼"), saddle stitched pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Includes the articles "Iron play provides real punch" and "The art of accurate putting" by Bobby Jones. D&M 22700; D&J J10600.Condition: Light wear; very good.
Heading: Author: Hagen, WalterTitle: The Walter Hagen Story, by the Haig, HimselfPlace Published: New YorkPublisher:Simon and SchusterDate Published: 1956Description: (8vo) cloth, and pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Also included is a copy of the "Special Edition" in full green leather, slightly larger (a later reprint?). D&M 19900; D&J H1810.Condition: Jacket with some small chips; both with light wear; very good.
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[PUSHKIN, ALEKSANDR], FIRST EDITION OF POLTAVA, 1829, PUSHKIN, Aleksandr (Russian 1799-1837). Poltava, Saint Petersburg: [Press of the Department of Popular Instruction], 1829. First edition. Rebacked with half leather binding, older spine preserved. 12mo (187 x 125 mm), 91 pages. Margins trimmed.LITERATUREN. Smirnov-Sokolsky Rasskazy o prizhiznennykh izdaniyakh Pushkina, (Moscow: Izdatelstvo vsesoyuznoy knizhnoy palaty, 1962), p. 18LOT NOTESAnother copy of this rare book is a part of the Kilgour collection of Russian literature (1750-1920) at Harvard College Library. Ref.: The Kilgour Collection of Russian Literature (Cambridge: The Harvard University Press, 1959), p. 883
Ware, Sir James. The antiquities and history of Ireland. Five parts in one. First edition in English 1705. engraved frontispiece portrait title printed in red and black. Errata leaf at end. Deals with the Annals during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Later panelled calf. Some manuscript notes to recto. Rebacked with original spine. Folio. 12¼ x 8in. (31.12 x 20.32cm)
Peadar Kearney 'The Soldier's Song' First Edition Music by Pádraig O' hAonaigh, arranged by Cathal MacDubhgall. 12¼ x 9¼in. (31.12 x 23½cm) Peadar Kearney worked first as a labourer in Dublin, where he was born and educated. In 1911 he got a job at The Abbey Theatre as a props man where he met Patrick Heeney who helped him score The Soldier’s Song which he had composed in 1909-1910. He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood in early 1903, and became a member of its Supreme Council. He was a founder member of the Irish Volunteers. The Soldier’s Song quickly became the Volunteers’ most popular marching song and was widely published. It was sung in the GPO during the Rising. In the 1916 Rising Peadar Kearney fought under Thomas MacDonagh at Jacob’s biscuit factory in Bishop Street. He evaded capture after the Rising was put down but was arrested during the War of Independence and interned at Ballykinlar Camp in County Down in 1920-21.Published by Whelan and Son, Dublin, 1916. Composed as a marching song for the Irish Volunteers, The Soldier's Song" was adopted as the Irish National Anthem in 1926.
Gnathai Gan Iarraidh The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Fein together with two books and & The Irish Statesman, final issue. (4) Maunsel, Dublin and London, 1918. First Edition. Pp.54. 8vo. Together with Childers, Erskine. Military Rule in Ireland: A Series of Eight Articles contributed to The Daily News March - May 1920 (Reprinted by permission) With notes and an Additional Chapter. Talbot Press, Dublin, 1920. Booklet. Third Edition. 8vo 50pp; Also Rill, J. Bridgie: A Tale of the Burren Country. Catholic Truth Society, Dublin. 1908. Pp.24, Booklet. Also 1930 (April 12) The Irish Statesman, final issue (4) The Irish Statesman stood for intellectual liberty at a time when ultra-conservative Catholicism was imposing ever greater restrictions on the press. The Irish Statesman closed following a libel case in which £2,000 was awarded against the weekly magazine.
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James Joyce Portrait of the Artist London: Egoist Press, [1917], 1917. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles in blind to upper board and to spine gilt. First edition, English issue from American sheets, published 12 February 1917. Joyce's first novel was published in America by Huebsch, from whom Harriet Shaw Weaver, the proprietor of the Egoist Press, purchased "not more than 750" sets of sheets, issuing them here a year before her own UK printing of March 1918.
Archdall, Mervyn. Monasticon Hibericum: or a History of the Abbeys, Priories and other Religious Houses in Ireland. Dublin, printed by J. Wright of Dublin for Luke White, 1786. First edition. 4to. Stowe library copy with ink inscription on fly leaf. Folding engraved map and 18 plates, some ink annotations in Irish some slight browning, book plate of John Ynyr Burges, Parkanur, Tyrone on front pastedown, later endpapers, modern antique-style blind stamped calf. Provenance: Purchased at the Duke of Buckingham's sale of the Stowe library Feb.1849 by J. Y. Burges. The annotations in Irish in the text are likely those of Charles O'Conor (1764-1828 ) Irish priest and historical author, chaplain and librarian to the Marchioness of Buckingham. O'Conor, catalogued many manuscripts,including the Stowe Missal now in the Royal Irish Academy. John Ynyr Burges 1798-1889. Graduated MA from Brasenose College, Oxford. 1829, High Sheriff of Co. Tyrone and Justice of the Peace for Tyrone.
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