Title: Golf Architecture in America: Its Strategy and Construction Author: Thomas, George C., Jr. Place: Los Angeles Publisher: The Times-Mirror Press Date: 1927 Description: xxv, 342 pp. Illustrated with numerous plates from photos and golf course plans and maps (1 is folding in the rear), photos are in color including frontispiece; decorative endpapers. 22.2x15.5 cm (8¾x6"), dark blue-green cloth, lettered in light green, red-orange stamped vignette on the front cover, top edge stained green, original jacket with color pictorial front panel; housed in custom made clamshell box, quarter morocco and cloth, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands. First Edition. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: "To A. J. Hills, with all good wishes, Geo. C. Thomas Jr " George C. Thomas, Jr. was one of the leading figures in golf course architecture's Golden Age, among greats like Donald Ross and A.W. Tillinghast. "One of the outstanding books on golf course architecture having the added attraction, as a book, of being handsomely produced" - Murdoch 767; D&J T7730; D&M 36690. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket soiled with tears and chips; spine and corners of volume a bit rubbed, front hinge cracked and almost detached, rear joint by map cracked; very good in good jacket, fine box. Item number: 257934
Title: Golf Architecture in America: Its Strategy and Construction Author: Thomas, George C., Jr. Place: Los Angeles Publisher: The Times-Mirror Press Date: 1927 Description: xxv, 342 pp. Illustrated with numerous plates from photos and golf course plans and maps (1 is folding in the rear), photos are in color including frontispiece; decorative endpapers. 22.2x15.5 cm (8¾x6"), dark blue-green cloth, lettered in light green, red-orange stamped vignette on the front cover, top edge stained green, original jacket with color pictorial front panel; housed in custom made clamshell box, quarter morocco and cloth, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands. First Edition. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: "To A. J. Hills, with all good wishes, Geo. C. Thomas Jr " George C. Thomas, Jr. was one of the leading figures in golf course architecture's Golden Age, among greats like Donald Ross and A.W. Tillinghast. "One of the outstanding books on golf course architecture having the added attraction, as a book, of being handsomely produced" - Murdoch 767; D&J T7730; D&M 36690. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket soiled with tears and chips; spine and corners of volume a bit rubbed, front hinge cracked and almost detached, rear joint by map cracked; very good in good jacket, fine box. Item number: 257934
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