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Auction archive: Lot number 189

Shelf of golf memoirs and reminiscences

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$200
Auction archive: Lot number 189

Shelf of golf memoirs and reminiscences

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$200
Beschreibung:

Nine volumes. Includes books by Bobby Locke, J. H. Taylor, George Duncan and others. Most illustrated with photographs. (8vo) most in original cloth bindings, few with dust jackets. Comprising: Stewart, John W. Roland, A Short Story About Roland R. MacKenzie's Golfing Career. [N.p.]: Printing Corporation of America, 1987. Original pictorial wrappers. No. 593 of 2000 copies. Locke, Bobby. Bobby Locke on Golf. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. Foreword by Bernard Darwin. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering, blue paper covered boards. First Edition. (Edgewear, upper 1" of covers faded, tape remnants and evidence of removal on covers, ownership signature on front pastedown) Duncan, George. Golf at the Gallop. London: Sporting Handbooks, 1951. Full orange cloth, black printed spine titles; pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.(Jacket soiled and worn with tears and chips some larger chips on upper edge) Taylor, J. H. Golf: My Life's Work. London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. Introduction by Bernard Darwin. Full red cloth, gilt spine titles; top edge stained red. First Edition.(Slight spine lean, spine faded and dampstained, covers stained) Kirkaldy, Andra. Fifty Years of Golf: My Memories. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1921. Full olive green blind- and gilt-stamped cloth. (Light edgewear, corner bumped, cover lightly stained) Jones, Bob. British Golf Odyssey. Monterey, CA: Angel Press, 1977. Full green cloth, black printed titles and decoration; green endpapers; pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by the author in green on title page. (Light edgewear to jacket; pastedowns have turned yellow) Jenkins, Dan. The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1970]. Quarter gilt lettered black cloth, lime green blindstamped boards; patterened endpapers. First Edition. (Light soiling, bottom front edge bumped) Jenkins, Dan. The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Quarter gilt lettered black cloth, lime green blindstamped boards; patterened endpapers; pictorial dust jacket. Fourth printing. (Jacket torn, chipped, creased at edges, piece of spine missing, price-clipped) Helme, Eleanor E. After the Ball, Merry Memoirs of a Golfer. London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., [1931]. Full green cloth, black printed titles and decoration. (Extremities worn, edges foxed)

Auction archive: Lot number 189
Auction:
Datum:
13 May 2021
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Nine volumes. Includes books by Bobby Locke, J. H. Taylor, George Duncan and others. Most illustrated with photographs. (8vo) most in original cloth bindings, few with dust jackets. Comprising: Stewart, John W. Roland, A Short Story About Roland R. MacKenzie's Golfing Career. [N.p.]: Printing Corporation of America, 1987. Original pictorial wrappers. No. 593 of 2000 copies. Locke, Bobby. Bobby Locke on Golf. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. Foreword by Bernard Darwin. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering, blue paper covered boards. First Edition. (Edgewear, upper 1" of covers faded, tape remnants and evidence of removal on covers, ownership signature on front pastedown) Duncan, George. Golf at the Gallop. London: Sporting Handbooks, 1951. Full orange cloth, black printed spine titles; pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.(Jacket soiled and worn with tears and chips some larger chips on upper edge) Taylor, J. H. Golf: My Life's Work. London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. Introduction by Bernard Darwin. Full red cloth, gilt spine titles; top edge stained red. First Edition.(Slight spine lean, spine faded and dampstained, covers stained) Kirkaldy, Andra. Fifty Years of Golf: My Memories. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1921. Full olive green blind- and gilt-stamped cloth. (Light edgewear, corner bumped, cover lightly stained) Jones, Bob. British Golf Odyssey. Monterey, CA: Angel Press, 1977. Full green cloth, black printed titles and decoration; green endpapers; pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by the author in green on title page. (Light edgewear to jacket; pastedowns have turned yellow) Jenkins, Dan. The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1970]. Quarter gilt lettered black cloth, lime green blindstamped boards; patterened endpapers. First Edition. (Light soiling, bottom front edge bumped) Jenkins, Dan. The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Quarter gilt lettered black cloth, lime green blindstamped boards; patterened endpapers; pictorial dust jacket. Fourth printing. (Jacket torn, chipped, creased at edges, piece of spine missing, price-clipped) Helme, Eleanor E. After the Ball, Merry Memoirs of a Golfer. London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., [1931]. Full green cloth, black printed titles and decoration. (Extremities worn, edges foxed)

Auction archive: Lot number 189
Auction:
Datum:
13 May 2021
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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