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. With bookplate of Joseph S.F. Murdoch on verso of front free endpaper. First Edition in the rare dust jacket. PBA Galleries sold this copy in the Murdoch sale in 1998, and it still remains the finest copy ever sold by PBA Galleries. 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: Tiny nicks and tiny tears at jacket edges, light soiling, spine a touch darkened, small tape repair on verso of jacket spine; fine volume in a near fine jacket, much better than usually found. Item number: 228439
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. With bookplate of Joseph S.F. Murdoch on verso of front free endpaper. First Edition in the rare dust jacket. PBA Galleries sold this copy in the Murdoch sale in 1998, and it still remains the finest copy ever sold by PBA Galleries. 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: Tiny nicks and tiny tears at jacket edges, light soiling, spine a touch darkened, small tape repair on verso of jacket spine; fine volume in a near fine jacket, much better than usually found. Item number: 228439
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