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), 4 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. First Edition. First Edition in the rare dust jacket. 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: Several small nicks and short tears to jacket edges; fine volume in a very good jacket. Item number: 245422
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), 4 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. First Edition. First Edition in the rare dust jacket. 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: Several small nicks and short tears to jacket edges; fine volume in a very good jacket. Item number: 245422
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