Two volumes. 61 pp. Illustrated from photographs. (8vo) full cloth, gilt titles. First Edition. Two different bindings: Full red cloth Full blue cloth, variant binding. This copy with label for U. S. Golf Importing Company on title page. Most copies were issued with a red cloth binding, the blue cloth an uncommon variant binding. Edgar, an occasionally brilliant but often erratic player who died mysteriously in 1921 at the age of 35, was the pioneer of the method of hitting the ball he referred to as 'from inside out.' The book is based on this theory, which has slowly become accepted as sound and is, today, common practice. Edgar was the hitting mentor for Tommy Armour. Donovan & Murdoch 15780; Murdoch 224.
Two volumes. 61 pp. Illustrated from photographs. (8vo) full cloth, gilt titles. First Edition. Two different bindings: Full red cloth Full blue cloth, variant binding. This copy with label for U. S. Golf Importing Company on title page. Most copies were issued with a red cloth binding, the blue cloth an uncommon variant binding. Edgar, an occasionally brilliant but often erratic player who died mysteriously in 1921 at the age of 35, was the pioneer of the method of hitting the ball he referred to as 'from inside out.' The book is based on this theory, which has slowly become accepted as sound and is, today, common practice. Edgar was the hitting mentor for Tommy Armour. Donovan & Murdoch 15780; Murdoch 224.
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