Collection Of Nine Golf Books

Collection Of Nine Golf Books

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Small Golfing Library.
A good collection of nine golf books, two The All-England Series - Golf, Golf Clubs & How To Use Them, The Golf Swing, Driving - Approaching - Putting, Success At Golf, Quick Cuts To Good Golf, Golf Do's & Dont's and The Autobiography Of A Caddy-Bag. All are hard back copies and all bar one are instructional books on golf, the last one is a work of fiction. A great addition to anybody's collection or even a great starting point for a golfing library.

The All-England Series By H.S.C. Everard GOLF - Golf In Theory And Practice (some hints to beginners), two copies one published in 1904 the other 1910 (first edition was published in 1897). Both hard back copies with pictorial cloth cover, one blue and one green, 194 pages and illustrated throughout. The 1904 copy with advertisements, F.H. Ayres, A.W. Gamage Ltd., Ransomes' lawn Mowers, E. Brown & Son's boot preparations, Flor De Dindigul cigars, Lambert goldsmiths, Shanks's Golf Mowers, Carters grass seeds, G. Forrester & Son golf club and ball maker, John Piggott golfing requisites, Boulton & Paul Ltd. and The Royal Forest Hotel - Epping Forest.

Golf Clubs & How To Use Them by Edward Ray. Hard back copy, third edition - 1926. Instructional book on playing golf. The author states his own set of clubs as four wooden clubs, a cleek, a driving iron, an iron, a mashie, a niblick and a putter.

The Golf Swing by Burnham Hare - The Golfing Swing simplified and its mechanism correctly explained. Hard back copy. sixth edition - 1922, colourful cover. Instructional book on playing golf.

Driving - Approaching - Putting by Edward Ray. Hard back copy. forth edition - 1926, colourful cover. Instructional book on playing golf.

Success At Golf - Hints for the player of moderate ability by Harry Vardon, Alex Herd, George Duncan, Wilfrid E. Ried, Jack White, Tom Ball & Lawrence Ayton. Hard back copy. first edition - 1914, colourful front and back boards. Instructional book on playing golf, illustrated with action photographs specially taken by Humphrey Joel. Lots of advertising throughout. Black-and-white photographs showing the instructions on how to play golf correctly.

Quick Cuts To Good Golf by Stancliffe, author of 'Golf Do's And Dont's'. Hard back copy. Forth edition - 1928, colourful front cover. Instructional book on playing golf.

Golf Do's & Dont's by Stancliffe, author of 'Fun On The Billiard Table'. Hard back copy. Ninth edition - 1923, colourful front cover. Instructional book on playing golf.

The Autobiography Of A Caddy-Bag by Stancliffe, author of 'Golf Do's And Dont's', 'Quick Cuts To Good Golf' etc. Hard back copy. First edition - 1924, colourful front cover. This was Stancliffe's final book, published in 1924. It is a work of fiction and is the rarest of all the Stancliffe titles. Stamped inside 'Schulenburg Golf Library, Pretoria, 725'.

Dimensions:

Height 7.2 cm / 3"
Width 11 cm / 4 "
Depth 1.5 cm / "
Period

1900-1949

Year

Circa 1904 - 1924

Medium

Paper

Country

United Kingdom

Condition

All books are in good condition. Some with foxing. The Autobiography Of A Caddy-Bag has spine missing, has had a home repair to it.

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