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Auction archive: Lot number 24

Scotsman's Dream

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 24

Scotsman's Dream

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Title: Scotsman's Dream Author: Berry, Warner Bott Place: San Francisco Publisher: Privately Printed [at the Arion Press] Date: 2002 Description: [6], 527 pp. Illustrated with golf course plans showing the complete and imaginative 18-hole golf course from drawings by Christopher Monti and Andrew Berry; frontispiece drawing by Andrew Berry; decorative map endpapers of the golf course for 2000 (front endpapers of the MacKenzie Map by Christopher Monti and rear endpapers by Darryl T. Roberson and Christopher Monti). (4to), tartan patterned cloth in green, black and yellow colors, spine lettered in yellow, green cloth slipcase with paper spine label. No. 941 of 1000 copies designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem with Blake Riley at the Arion Press. First Edition. Signed by the author in the colophon. An imaginative work that involves the three greatest golf course architects in the history of the game, A.W. Tillinghast, Alister MacKenzie, and Donald Ross These men hold a secret “meeting of the minds” in March, 1933. They design the plans for the ultimate golf course to give to a wealthy Scotsman who is told not to have the course revealed and built until the year 2000. According to this work of fiction, these three greats want to prove to the golfing world of the new millennium that classic designs will always surpass all other designs, regardless of when they are built. D&J B15220. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 239147

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
22 Aug 2013
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:

Title: Scotsman's Dream Author: Berry, Warner Bott Place: San Francisco Publisher: Privately Printed [at the Arion Press] Date: 2002 Description: [6], 527 pp. Illustrated with golf course plans showing the complete and imaginative 18-hole golf course from drawings by Christopher Monti and Andrew Berry; frontispiece drawing by Andrew Berry; decorative map endpapers of the golf course for 2000 (front endpapers of the MacKenzie Map by Christopher Monti and rear endpapers by Darryl T. Roberson and Christopher Monti). (4to), tartan patterned cloth in green, black and yellow colors, spine lettered in yellow, green cloth slipcase with paper spine label. No. 941 of 1000 copies designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem with Blake Riley at the Arion Press. First Edition. Signed by the author in the colophon. An imaginative work that involves the three greatest golf course architects in the history of the game, A.W. Tillinghast, Alister MacKenzie, and Donald Ross These men hold a secret “meeting of the minds” in March, 1933. They design the plans for the ultimate golf course to give to a wealthy Scotsman who is told not to have the course revealed and built until the year 2000. According to this work of fiction, these three greats want to prove to the golfing world of the new millennium that classic designs will always surpass all other designs, regardless of when they are built. D&J B15220. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 239147

Auction archive: Lot number 24
Auction:
Datum:
22 Aug 2013
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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