Title: Hazards, Those Essential Elements in a Golf Course Without Which the Game Would be Tame and Uninteresting Author: Bauer, Aleck Place: Chicago Publisher: Toby Rubovits Date: 1913 Description: 61 pp. Illustrated from rare and interesting photographs; 12 golf course map drawings (1 folding of St. Andrews); plus a cartoon frontispiece drawing from an old Golf Illustrated. 8x5½, original red cloth-backed light green boards, front cover lettered in dark green. First Edition. A rare and charming book devoted to golf hazards; this being only the third copy of the first edition offered at auction in the past twenty-five years, according to ABPC auction records. Murdoch 44; D&M 6320; D&J B8890. "Adirondack Library" of New York rubberstamped on front free endpaper and rear pastedown (no other markings); address label of Amedeo Micone (New Jersey) on front pastedown. Lot Amendments Condition: Light dampstains and very tiny white dots to upper front cover, mild soiling, spine ends and corners a bit bumped; front hinge cracked (nearly through), rear hinge only tender; about very good. Item number: 190347
Title: Hazards, Those Essential Elements in a Golf Course Without Which the Game Would be Tame and Uninteresting Author: Bauer, Aleck Place: Chicago Publisher: Toby Rubovits Date: 1913 Description: 61 pp. Illustrated from rare and interesting photographs; 12 golf course map drawings (1 folding of St. Andrews); plus a cartoon frontispiece drawing from an old Golf Illustrated. 8x5½, original red cloth-backed light green boards, front cover lettered in dark green. First Edition. A rare and charming book devoted to golf hazards; this being only the third copy of the first edition offered at auction in the past twenty-five years, according to ABPC auction records. Murdoch 44; D&M 6320; D&J B8890. "Adirondack Library" of New York rubberstamped on front free endpaper and rear pastedown (no other markings); address label of Amedeo Micone (New Jersey) on front pastedown. Lot Amendments Condition: Light dampstains and very tiny white dots to upper front cover, mild soiling, spine ends and corners a bit bumped; front hinge cracked (nearly through), rear hinge only tender; about very good. Item number: 190347
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