A Collection of Golf History and Fiction Volumes, Multiple Signed First Editions (DJ)
A collection of hardcover and softcover volumes focused on golf history and literature. The group includes Archie Baird, Golf on Gullane Hill: A celebration of 100 years of Gullane Golf Club, printed by Macdonald Printers (Edinburgh) Ltd., 1982, in blue cloth binding with a pictorial dust jacket. The title page bears a signature in black ink reading Archie Baird. Alain R. Bocquet, Le Golf: des origines a nos jours, published by Editions Hervas, 1988, features a pictorial hardcover and is inscribed in blue ink on the flyleaf Hommages de l'auteur followed by a signature reading Alain R. Bocquet. Harry Forse, The Seventy-Second Hole, 1976, printed by Mitchell-Fleming Printing, Inc., is a hardcover novel with a green pictorial dust jacket, inscribed in green ink on the title page 5-4-76 To Robert Bruck Best Regards Harry Forse. Lincoln Roden III, Golf’s Golden Age 1945-1954: From Nelson to Hogan to Palmer, published by Reed Drabick, Inc., 1996, is a softcover edition inscribed in blue ink on the flyleaf To Rod, Let us all restore the challenges the architects intended. Lincoln Roden 5/9/03. Troon McAllister, The Green, published by Doubleday, 1999, is a stated first edition hardcover novel with a dust jacket illustrated by Robert Crawford and a copyright page number line reading 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. The collection includes various illustrations, from the Charles Lees painting The Golfers on the endpapers of the Bocquet volume to historical photography and original jacket art.
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