Golf

London: Collins, 1962. First edition of this early instructional by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, "With Very Best Wishes Gary Player." Very good in the original dust jacket that shows some wear to the crown. Gary Player is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of golf. Over his career, Player accumulated nine major championships on the regular tour and six Champions Tour major championship victories, as well as three Senior British Open Championships on the European Senior Tour. At the age of 29, Player won the 1965 U.S. Open and became the only non-American to win all four majors, known as the career Grand Slam. Player became only the third golfer in history to win the Career Grand Slam, following Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen, and only Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods have performed the feat since.

Edinburgh: T & A Constable. G : in good condition. Modern rebind with new eps. 1896. First Edition. Marbled hardback boards with blue cloth spine. 300mm x 220mm (12" x 9"). xix, 516pp, xxxiv + plates. 9 b/w & sepia plates. 270 b/w vignettes. Heavy book – extra shipping needed for overseas. .

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, printed at The Riverside Press, 1908. First edition, no. 276 of 440 copies. Printed in red and black. 152, [2] pp. 1 vols. Sm 8vo. Original cloth-backed decorated paper over boards. Fresh, clean copy, just about fine. Bookplate, small neat inkstamp (Bruce Rogers Coll.) at foot of flyleaf. First edition, no. 276 of 440 copies. Printed in red and black. 152, [2] pp. 1 vols. Sm 8vo. Donovan and Murdoch 20420; The Work of Bruce Rogers 176

London: Collins, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. With Illustrations by Elinor Darwin. London: Collins, 1948. First edition. The grandson of British naturalist Charles Darwin, Bernard Darwin (1876-1961) was an accomplished amateur golfer who covered the sport for The Times from 1907 to 1953 and for Country Life from 1907 to 1961, becoming the first writer ever to cover golf on a daily basis, rather than as an occasional feature. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2005. In the twenty-nine essays in this collection, Darwin elaborates on such varied topics as his boyhood attachment to tin soldiers, his "fundamentalist's" faith in Sherlockiana, his affection for small railroad junctions situated thrillingly close to some favorite golf links, the "restful excitement" of watching a cricket match, and the pleasures of a day spent in bed. Signed by Darwin on the title page. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with gilt titles. The spine is touch sun faded. Some light… Read more

New York: A.S. Barnes, 1957. Presumed First printing. HC w DJ. PC Good+/Good. SIGNED BY ARNOLD PALMER & JACK NICKLAUS. Presumed 1st/1st (Barnes was notoriously inconsistent on printing statements, and did not explicitly state first editions). Cream w green quarter cloth, shelfwear, scuffs/marks with some soiling to boards, corners fraying, unmarked, binding sound. SIGNED to FFEP (to verso & recto), was apparently torn out, folded & creased, and then poorly taped back in. Clipped DJ heavily edgeworn w nicks/chips, open tears, some soiling, now in Brodart. Illustrations by Anthony Ravielli. This is a very rare, utterly unique copy of a classic golf lesson book, signed by two of the game's all-time great golfer-ambassadors. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.

NY: Conde Nast, 1933-36, 1933. Folios. 18 issues: 1933 -- January, February, August, September, October and December. 1934 -- October. 1935 -- January, April through December. 1936 -- January. All but one issue (October 1934) contain articles by Robert T. Jones, Jr. (Bobby Jones). Overall, the condition of these large fragile magazines is very good or better, with the following exceptions: August 1933 the covers are partially separated (but present); October 1934 there is a faint damp stain in the rear; April and May 1935 the covers are detached but present and July 1935 there is a large chip rear cover. Four issues have an ad neatly excised (not affecting text or photographs). These magazines were profusely illustrated with photographs, and many issues contain substantial pieces on women's golf. They have all become scarce, especially those issues with classic articles by Bobby Jones.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1892. 2nd Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Half dark brown leather and red marbled boards, moderately edgeworn at extremities, with gilt titling and decoration on banded spine--lovely! Mahogany red marbled endpapers. One leaf/two pages of plates loose. Otherwise binding is tight and sound. This is a pleasantly heavy book; it has a nice 'hand'. Three former owners' names, dates, and one inscription on front free end paper. 8vo. BOOK INFO: One of the first--if not THE first--editions of this book to include photographs (B&W) of golfers demonstrating play: 20 plates and 10 diagrams showing positions of feet and hands. In two parts--I. Preliminary and Principally Foolish: The Praise of Golf; The Origin of Golf; The Nature of the Game; Of Sets of Clubs and Other Golfing Appurtenances; Of Caddies; II. Of Playing the Game: Of Driving in General; Of Style in Driving; Advice to Beginners; Of Peculiarities and Faults; Of Temporary Faults; Of Playing Through… Read more

New York: National Association of Audubon Societies, 1926. 1st Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. (ca. 1926-7) 1st edition. A Near Fine copy. 8vo., 64 pp., illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. Bound in gray stiff illustrated wraps. Some very light soiling to the wraps, and a small smudge on the rear panel. Near Fine. *** The Legendary Golfer, Bobby Jones' scarcest written work. Written for the Audubon Society, with a committee of seven men, including T. Gilbert Pearson, President of both the National Association and the Golf Club Bird Sanctuary, who was also one of the founding members of the conservation movement in the United States. A remarkably clean, fresh copy, without creases, rubbing, previous owner's names or writing.

Atlanta GA: Atlanta Athletic Club, 1978. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good+. VG+/1st ed. The Atlanta Athletic Club published this account of Bobby Jones' speech at the Freedom of the City Presentation at Younger Graduation Hall in St. Andrews Scotland in 1958. It also contains the remarks of Robert Leonard, Provost, St. Andrews Scotland. 16 pages long, with a good size b&w photo of the Freedom of the City Ceremony. Book is clean with no soiling, no fading, great even color to covers. Firmly stapled, with all pages present. Not ex library. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage. Mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth decoratively stamped in green and silver. Very Good with cloth soiled and darkened. Pages toned with a corner missing from page 177. A nice copy of what is considered to be the first book published in America on golf.

Inscribed on first blank page: for Dan best wishes, John Updike 8/26/96Clean text. Price unclipped (23.00). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good plus condition with some minor rubbing on front from shelf wear.John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.Updike is considered one of the greatest American fiction writers of his generation. He was widely praised as America's "last true man of letters", with an immense and far-reaching influence on many writers. The excellence of his prose style is acknowledged even by critics… Read more

Macmillan & Co. London. 1899. Second edition, Third printing overall. This edition listed as the "cheap reissue". Originally published in 1875, this printing adds the new rules of Golf, as adopted by the Royal and Ancient and also updates the R. & A. medal list. Small 4to. (8.5 x 6.4 inches). Illustrated with six plates and sixteen wood engravings by various artists including Hugh Thomson, James Drummond and Birket Foster. Decorative head and tail pieces & initial letters by Clark Stanton and C. A. Doyle. A few pages affected by foxing but mostly a very bright clean copy finely bound in recent full dark green morocco, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated with club and players devices and lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. Overall a very good copy in an attractive leather binding.

A Reissued & revamped sixth Edition – 1901 Hutchinson at his BEST American golf teaching professional Mike Stevens said of Hutchinson, "In my mind, there is no question that Horace Hutchinson was a teacher extraordinaire and is clearly the father of golf instruction". Walter Travis, in 1904—shortly after his victories in the 1903 U.S. Amateur and 1904 British Amateur—said of Hutchinson: 'All things considered, the golfer whom I most admired as a player was Horace Hutchinson. Over here we have read so many of his books and spoken of him so long as a veteran that one is surprised to find he is only forty-seven years old. He plays every shot for what it is worth and in perfect style, as free as any supple youth, and, all told, I pronounce him, to my mind, the ideal golfer'.
Horatio Gordon "Horace" Hutchinson (16 May 1859 – 27 July 1932) was an English amateur golfer who played in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Hutchinson won the 1886 and 1887 Amateur Championships. He had three… Read more

London: Chapman and Hall Limited, 1897. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very good copy of the book regarded as the first history of a golf club. Recased in original blue cloth, spine somewhat darkened, and with new endpapers. T.E.G. Full page plates with protective tissues. Previous owner's name on preliminary blank. A very good copy of the book regarded as the first history of a golf club.

JC Publishing Ltd., 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. NF/VG/1st ed./Signed. This is a real nice copy; jacket has great color, no soiling, a little rubbing on both ends of the spine, and a shallow scratch at the top of the dj's front cover. No wear to book at all, and warmly signed "Best Wishes, Jack Fleck" on the front free end paper. 128pp., first edition, lots of b&w photos, extensive appendix. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage, mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BRBC