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Original Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. One of 775 numbered copies. Fine condition.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Illustrated. 81 pages. A collection of the classic writings by the greatest English golf writer and columnist, Bernard Darwin, about golf at Aberdovey Golf Club in Wales. Darwin was the first Captain in the club in 1897, and its President from 1944 until his death in 1961. Aberdovey was his favorite place for golf, the place that his "soul loved best of all the courses in the world." Limited edition of 775 copies, this being number 576. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Grant Books, Worcestershire, England, 1996, 81 pages. Illustrated from photographs from old sources including a color frontispiece; facsimile end-sheets.Full blue Morocco leather cover decoratively stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth slipcase. Published in a limited edition of 775 copies of which the first125 are in leather and are designated The Aberdovey Edition. This is No. 57. SIGNED by Geoffrey Piper on the limitation page. Also, SIGNED by Joyce Wethered at end of her introduction (in form of a letter). D&J B45730. Condition: Near Fine in Fine Slipcase. Spine slightly sunned. . I will be adding volumes to my Golf List weekly. Signed by Author.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Illustrated. 81 pages. ONE OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE COPIES. A collection of the classic writings by the greatest English golf writer and columnist, Bernard Darwin, about golf at Aberdovey Golf Club in Wales. Darwin was the first Captain in the club in 1897, and its President from 1944 until his death in 1961. Aberdovey was his favorite place for golf, the place that his "soul loved best of all the courses in the world." Limited edition of 775 copies, the first one hundred twenty-five of which are The Aberdovey Edition bound by Cedric Chivers Bindery in full blue morocco, all edges gilt, with gilt titling and cover illustration, and raised spine bands. This edition has a special four-page limitation section which includes a printed letter from Joyce Wethered, now Lady Heathcot Amory. AUTOGRAPHED BY HER IN BLUE PEN AS JOYCE WETHERED; ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY COMPILER GEOFFREY PIPER. Publisher's prospectus laid in with hand corrections by the publisher Bob Grant. A beautiful copy with only slight spine fade, in the original blue cloth slipcase. Covers protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Autographed By Author. Limited Edition.

Condition: New. First Edition. 81p. leather, slipcase. 6/125 ltd. ed. signed by Piper. Signed by Geoffrey Piper on the limitation page. Also, signed by Joyce Wethered at end of her introduction (in form of a letter). D&J B45730. Signed.