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Title: Down the Fairway: The Golf Life and Play of Robert T. Jones, Jr. Author: Jones, Robert T[yre] ("Bobby"), Jr. & O.B. Keeler Place: [Chicago] Publisher: [Golf Links to the Past] Date: [2001] Description: 239 + xvi pp. Foreword by Grantland Rice and new 2001 foreword by Jack Nicklaus Illustrated from photographs (including frontispiece with Jones’ facsimile autograph); plus additional photos (from private collection of Sidney Matthew) and artwork (close-up sketches of Jones’ grip) for this new edition; Jones and Keeler's facsimile signatures from the 1927 limitation page. 9¼x6, decoratively embossed dark green morocco with illustration of Jones golfing on the front cover, lettered in gilt, raised spine bands, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt with original fore-edge painting by Linda Weir, publisher’s ¼ green morocco & cloth slipcase with embossed design; bound by Keith Felton Bookbinding. No. 18 of [100 copies specially bound and with fore-edge painting], from a total of 300. Limited Facsimile, the 75th Anniversary Edition. Signed by Jack Nicklaus on the limitation page with an official hologram label affixed. With an attractive hand-drawn fore-edge painting signed by Weir, of the 1927 Open championship, St. Andrews. The classic autobiography by Jones, specially released on the 75th anniversary of the Grand Slam and the 100th anniversary of his birth on St. Patrick's Day, 1902 (thus, reason for embossed four-leaf clover one spine). D&J J12700. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Truly, a work of art. Item number: 181971