Golf
Collection of club histories and other works
£1,750
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
including:
Dow, James Gordon. The Crail Golfing Society 1786-1936. Edinburgh: Golf Monthly, 1936. First edition, one of 250 copies only, 8vo, original two-tone cloth, glassine dust jacket, 7 halftone photographic plates;
McLaren, R. M. The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers 1744-1944. Edinburgh: [no publisher, c.1944]. First edition, 8vo, original wrappers, printed label to front, 23 pp., spots to label and page-edges,
Miller, T. D. The History of the Royal Perth Golfing Society. Perth: Munro Press, Ltd., 1935. First edition, large 8vo, original cloth, water-stained with concomitant rippling to text-block, bookplate of Melvin Gray (1848-1936, brother of Euphemia 'Effie' Gray);
Caw, William. King James VI. Golf Club, Record and Records. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, Limited, 1912. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, 4 plates;
Lysander, J. F. Gullane. A Poem. Edinburgh: John Robertson, 1887. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 2 mounted albumen-print photographs (collation unknown);
Johnston, Alastair J. The Clapcott Papers. Edinburgh: privately published, 1985. First edition, one of 400 copies only, 8vo, original blue cloth, slipcase;
Cunningham, And[rew] S. The Golf Clubs round Largo Bay. Leven: Purves & Cunningham, 1909. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;
and 9 others similar, including one on cricket (16)
Footnote
Note: Library Hub traces six copies only for Gullane, and two for The Golf Clubs round Largo Bay.