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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2012, 104 pages. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Pictorial dj of The Golfers. This is the catalogue for an exhibit of golf art at the High Museum of Art (Feb 5 - June 3, 2012) in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland. The art ranges from the 17th century to today. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w illustrations. Condition: Fine in Very Good+ DJ, First Edition.Some wrinkling on edges at spine and folds of dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Nagel Publishers, Geneva, June 1969, 166 pages. Beautiful color illustrations, notable for the tipped-in color plates throughout. many pasted in. Light brown boards with gilt lettering. DJ White DJ with photo on cover. Condition: Near Fine, Good+, First Edition. Price stamps on fep as well as a one inch square decal. DJ rubbed with wear on edges, wrinkled on front and soiled on back.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2000, 504 pages.Illustrated by beautiful colored plates, each containing small photos of about 30-40 birds White cover with photos of birds. White DJ with photos of birds (same as cover). Condition: Near Fine, Very Good+, First Edition. DJ has some bending along the top edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Library Association, 1981, 255 pages. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Baddiel on title page "Happy Collecting Sarah Baddiel". With dust jacket with plastic covering. Highlights and evaluates the key sources of golf from both sides of the Atlantic including the history of the game, the golfer themselves, instruction, the golf business, golfing organizations, and periodicals. Condition: Very Good+ in a Very Good DJ. Slight wear to top of spine. Front cover slightly warped. Scratches on plastic wrapper over DJ. I will be adding books to my Golf List weekly. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City NY, 1953, 191 pages. Introduction by Gilbert Seldes. King Aroo was an American comic strip series written and drawn by Jack Kent that ran from November 1950 to June 1965. Often compared to Walt Kelly's Pogo for its appeal to a sophisticated audience. Illustrated wraps. Condition: Very Good+, Stated First Edition. Reading crease to cover and first page only. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Top of pages soiled.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Tudor Publishing Co., New York, 1935, 394 pages. With 265 illustrations. bound in blue boards with gilt goblet design and lettering, top edge of pages blue. Frontispiece of same Stiegel cup. DJ is blue and black with goblet illustration. Comes in pictorial paper covered slipcase with same design as DJ. Condition: Near Fine, Very Good-, Very Good, Later (2nd) Edition. DJ has wear on edges especially the top including a one inch tear. One inch slit halfway down spine. Spine sunned. Slipcase is rubbed with obvious wear at lower front.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1975, 591 pages. 3rd Edition, revised. Illustrated with large b & w photos. The final installment in Wind's magnum opus which began in 1948, was updated in 1956, and then considerably augmented and revised for this edition. The best and most complete history of American golf. Light green boards with gilt lettering on spine with silhouette of flagstick on cover. Pictorial DJ with photos of Nicklaus and Palmer. Condition: Very Good in VG- DJ, 3rd Edition, Revised. Top and bottom of cover edges are sunned. Top of back cover has a bump in it. DJ is well rubbed with wear along edges. Damage to top of spine with one inch tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stanley Paul, London, 1988, 128 pages. Oversize 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Forward by Tony Jacklin. Sixty works of art from Rembrandt to Leroy Neiman. Left page has a discussion of the artist and the piece of art while the right page has a large reproduction of that work. Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Dark green DJ with two paintings on the front and back; enclosed in plastic. Condition: Near Fine in Fine DJ, First Edition. Bottom two corners of book bumped. A beautiful book! I will be adding new golf books to my catalog weekly.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Big Nickel Publications, Milford, New Hampshire, 1989, 114 pages. A month-by-month compilation of the major events, news stories, feature columns and record releases in the Rhythm & Blues field for the year 1953, highlighted by hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and vintage record company advertisements. Condition: Very Good +, Stated First Printing, August 1989. Some rubbing to covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Big Nickel Publications, Milford, New Hampshire, 1990, 155 pages. A month-by-month compilation of the major events, news stories, feature columns and record releases in the Rhythm & Blues field for the year 1955, highlighted by hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and vintage record company advertisements. Condition: Very Good+, Stated First Printing, October 1990. Some rubbing to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Resorts of Pinehurst, Inc., Pinehurst, NC 1991, 224 pages. With a foreword by Ron Green and original essays by Charles Price, Dick Taylor and Herbert Warren Wind. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. Design and lettering are gilt on green cover and slipcase. Number 113 of a limited edition of 1000. Condition: Near Fine in a Very Good DJ. Slight wear on bottom edges and top of cover ; slipcase shows a little wear and a thin line across front. I will be adding volumes to my Golf List weekly.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Scientific American Books, New York, 1984, 230 pages. Profusely illustrated by colored and b&w drawings and photographs. The novelist and physicist C. P. Snow once remarked that not knowing the Second Law of thermodynamics was analogous to never having read a work of Shakespeare s from dj. Here s your chance to to avoid that calamity. Grey boards with silver lettering on spine. Light yellow dj with Rousseau painting on cover. Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine DJ, 2nd Printing. Top and bottom of spine bumped. Foxing at top edge of pages. Two sentences underlined in red.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Toby Press Inc., New York, January 1952, No. 86. Condition:Very Good-, First Edition. Cover has many creases. Whole comic book as fold about an inch from top edge. Bottom corner bumped and worn. Back cover has stain, tear and damage along edge. Spine worn. Pages tanned along edges as usual.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dell Publishing Company, New York, 1953. No. 11 January-March, 1953. Condition: Very Good, First Edition. Back cover has small part of corner and spine missing. Six pages have small puncture at bottom (see photo). Edges smooth. Browning to page edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dell Publishing Company, New York, 1952. No. 9 April-June 1952. Condition: Very Good, First Edition.Three inch crease on cover. Bottom of spine worn. Edges smooth. Browning to page edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dell Publishing Company, New York, 1951. No. 6 July-September 1951. Condition: Very Good, First Edition. Light date stamp on cover. Top of spine worn. Browning to page edges. Some wear on cover edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. United States Golf Association, Far Hills, NJ, 1988, 299 pages. Combines an anthology of 34 autobiographical chapters by the best golfers - both amateurs and professionals - of the day and what led them to the game, what were the primary obstacles in their development, how they prevailed, and - in Leach's curious phrase - what each regarded as "the most important morals of his experience." Limited Edition of 1500 of which this is No. 436. A facsimile of the 1907 edition with an introduction by Arnold Palmer. The eighth in a series of facsimiles of works from the Rare Book Library of the USGA. Maroon cloth boards with gold design in lower right corner. Title in gold on spine with some of the black background coming off. Encased in tan slipcase with title/author info and logo on spine (nice touch). Condition: Near Fine in Fine Slipcase. I will be adding volumes to my Golf List weekly.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1970, 533 pages. Some are first printings, others second. Dr. R. Stuart Mackay is one of the pioneers of bio-medical telemetry. During the 1950s and 1960s, he and his students developed a number of the methods for using radio transition in medical and biological research, and have made significant contributions with these methods. Condition: New, Second Edition. Dust jackets may be rubbed and slightly worn on edges. Spine gunned.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Toby Press Inc., New York, September 1951, No. 84. Condition:Very Good-, First Edition. Bottom back corner damaged. One inch tear in last page. Small amount of writing on cover. Pages tanned around edges as usual.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dell Publishing Company, New York, 1952. No. 8 January-March 1952. Condition: Very Good+, First Edition. Edges smooth except for a bump on top of front cover. Browning to page edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dell Publishing Co., New York, 1948. Condition: Very Good-, First Edition. Top and bottom corners bumped. Date stamped on back cover. Browning along edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1902, 399 pages. Dark blue boards with bright gilt lettering and design on spine. Frontispiece of Morris. Upper edge gilt. Pages rough cut on side and bottom. This is the elusive "Special Edition" as indicated on the spine. Condition: Good+, Stated First Impression. Wear and bumping to top and bottom of spine and corners. Endpapers split at spine showing webbing which holds the book together.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dell Publishing Company, New York, 1951. No. 7 October-December 195. Condition: Very Good+, First Edition. Edges smooth except for two bumps on top of front cover. Corner fold. Browning to page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Airlie Hall Press, Kernersville, NC, 2002, 220 pages. Packard was the embodiment of 1960s golf course design. He designed or worked on over 300 courses. Color and b&w illustrations plus drawings of hole elevations. Dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. DJ heavy glossy white with a color illustration of 14th hole on Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor on front. Condition: Fine in Near Fine DJ, First Edition. . DJ is about 3/16 inch longer than the book so some bending marks on edges. I will be adding new golf books to my catalog weekly.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. United States Golf Association, Far Hills, NJ, 1984, 272 pages. Fourth in a series of facsimiles of works from the Rare Book Library of the United States Golf Association. Facsimile of the 1911 First Edition with an introductory essay by Lady Joyce Heathcoat Amory. Light brown cloth boards with green lettering and dark brown decorations. Limited to an edition of 1500 copies of which this is #83. Slipcase is brown. Condition: Fine in Fine Slipcase, First Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Edward Arnold, London, 1973 reprint of 1971 original, 59 pages. The Institute of Biology's Studies in Biology no. 29. Illustrated by b&w drawings and a few photos. Light blue wrappers. Condition; Very Good Reprint. 1 x 2 inch sticker on back. Spine sunned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. T. Eisele, Chicago, 1903, 176 pages. Illustrated with b&w ratings and full page photos. Dark green boards with gilt lettering on cover. Condition: Very Good, First Edition. Wear and bumping to top and bottom of spine and all four corners. Soiling to cover especially to bottom back cover. Name plate on fep.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1974, 310 pages. Illustrated with 16-page section of b & w photos. A history of how the PGA tour developed from the 1890's to the 1970s. Two tone green boards with gilt lettering on spine and embossed golf ball on a tee on cover. Green DJ with white lettering. INSCRIBED by author to his editor on title page. Condition: Near Fine in a Very Good DJ, First Edition. Top and bottom of spine bumped. Rear flap of DJ clipped. Inscribed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Clemens Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1892, 211 pages. Printed wrappers with a portrait of Twain on front. Part of the Pacific Library series. Condition: Good+, First Edition. Bottom 3 inches and top half inch of spine missing. Bottom 3 inches of cover not attached to spine. Covers soiled and stained. Foxing to some pages and endpapers.Corners worn and folded. Some pages have creases near spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1905, 346 pages. Illustrations by A. B. Frost. The author characterizes the protagonist: "John Henry Smith, who tells the story. Heir of his father, lives in Woodvale [country] club house, devoted to golf, becomes interested in Wall Street, and falls in love with Grace Harding". Classic American novel about golf and love. Olive boards with gilt lettering with inset paper label of golfer on upper cover (Corner missing). Condition: Good+, First Edition. Wear to corners and top and bottom of spine. Book cocked (see photo).