The Book of Golf Disasters.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus. [Originally published UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj by Stanley Paul (LONDON),1983 and reprinted that and the subsequent year 1984.This,an 8vo HB+dw/dj Book Club edn,by arrangement with Hutchinson Publishing Group in 1984,is a 1st edn thus.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - as a book club edn.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with colour+b/w John Ireland cartoon illustrated dw/dj panels',with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf -wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of both dw/dj and book minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,some light,superficial scoring/ indents to dw/djs' rear panel - bds beneath unaffected though.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned,but still clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears to be unread.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn thus,9-179pp [paginated] includes author's intro,7 chapters,15 full-page b/w cartoons by John Ireland throughout the text and the book.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table,a dedication page,and chapter separator pages.
What unites the golfers of this world is not talent or prize money,but the ability to endure disaster.
The incensing rub of the green,the diminution of all self-respect as one's three-foot putt slides ludicrously past the hole - these are the experiences that bind together everyone on the golf course from Jack Nicklaus to the humblest hacker.
Peter Dobereiner,with scarcely a hint of sadism,has assembled 200 stories of desperation,ignominy and self-sacrifice from some of the most famous names in and out of golf,to show how the game is capable of reducing the mightiest player to a nervous wreck.From Arnold Palmer's fifth tee-shot on the ninth at Rancho Park to Nicky Price and the African bush pig; from Jack Newton's ant attack to Ben Wright and the clockwork false teeth - this is a catalogue of misfortunes to do the heart good,and cheer up the ordinary golfer weary of little disappointments on the green.Even the author,a gracious interpreter of the game,found himself becoming 'impatient as a drug addict',avid for more horrors as the stars of golf confessed to defeats snatched from the jaws of victory,drives in the drink and putts in purgatory.
Beautifully angled and mischievously written,here is a book on how to meet with triumph and disaster on the fairways and treat those two imposters to a gin and tonic.
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