Berry Warner Bott (8 results)

Christopher Monti, Andrew Berry, Darryl T. Roberson (illustrator). Limited first edition of this fictional tale of golf architecture, following the three greatest golf architects as they collaborate on a secret joint design of a golf course. Limited to 1,000 copies designed and printed by Andrew Hoyem and Blake Riley at the Arion Press, this copy being unnumbered and unsigned. Illustrated with golf course plans showing the imaginative 18-hole golf course from drawings by Christopher Monti and 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). San Francisco: Privately Printed, 2002. Tartan patterned cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. [6], 527. Faint sunning to spine, else a fine copy in a fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Oversized limited edition in green cloth slipcase with yellow paper label on spine; number 646 signed by Berry on rear endpaper. The book itself is attractively bound in green, black and yellow plaid cloth with frontis by Andrew Berry and golf hole drawings by Christopher Monti and Andrew Berry. Front endpaper MacKenzie Map is by Monti, with golf course map on rear endpaper by Darryl T. Robertson and Monti. Contents clean, bright with scant evidence (if that) of handling. Slipcase very mildly rubbed. 527 numbered pages. ;

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Condition: Like New. Plad cloth with slipcase. Page block firm and clean, binding unblemished, boards straight, without markings of any kind. Fine, like new condition. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. Signed by the author. Copy #546 of 1000. In a slip case which has an insect chewed spine label. No damage otherwise. Private owner's inscription on the second half-title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Speculative fiction about golf architects, limited to 1000 copies designed and printed by Andrew Hoyem and the Arion Press in an edition of 1000 signed and numbered copies. The plot imagines three great golf course architects?A.W. Tillinghast, Alister MacKenzie, and Donald Ross?meeting in 1933 to plan the ultimate golf course for a weathly Scotsman to build in the year 2000. The author was, I believe, a member of the San Francisco Golf Club. 527 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine slipcase that is lightly scuffed. This is copy 296, signed by the author on the colophon.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited edition: this copy is number 228 of 1000 copies. SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. Previous owner's gift inscription on half-title page, else near fine in a near fine slipcase.; 527 pages; Signed by Author B004D99IFC.

Berry's Scotsman's Dream is a work of fiction set initially in 1933. A general synopsis is as follows: three men, A.W. Tillinghast, Alister MacKenzie, and Donald Ross, considered to be the three greatest golf course architects in history, agree to design a golf course for the future, which will be revealed and made public in the year 2000; the golf course they jointly created will then be built and opened for play. They proceed to spend a week on the land, which Tillinghast claims is "the most perfect place I have ever seen for a golf course." It is, in actuality, a farm overlooking Cayuga Lake, near Ithaca, New York, in the fabled Finger Lakes region. Large octavo. [6], 527, [1, blank], [+1, colophon] pp. Frontispiece by Andrew Berry; eighteen golf hole drawings by Christopher Monti and Andrew Berry; Front end papers illustrated with MacKenzie Map by Christopher Monti; Rear endpaper illustrated with Golf Course Map by Darryl T. Roberson and Christopher Monti. Initial letters. Green, black, and yellow plaid cloth. A fine copy in a lightly rubbed green cloth slipcase with a printed paper spine label. One of an edition of 1,000 copies. Designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem with the assistance of Blake Riley at the Arion Press in San Francisco. Signed and numbered in green ink on the colophon by the author. On that site the architects envision and design a classic golfing ground where future champions will play for national championships in the twenty-first century. The land is owned by a wealthy Scotsman, who underwrites the costs of the project. He is a native of St. Andrews and of the Old Course and dreams of furthering his heritage by establishing an American St. Andrews on his property. The Scotsman keeps the design plan secret for sixty-six years, all the while scrupulously preparing his land for its ultimate destiny. The secret is known to only a few persons, and all three architects go to their graves preserving it. Tillinghast, MacKenzie, and Ross believe their achievement will prove to the golfing world of the millennium that classic designs always yield classic courses, regardless of when they are built.