July 2021 Catalogue

63 S p o r t s “One Of The Fine Books In The Golf Library” 67. (GOLF) DARWIN, Bernard. The Golf Courses of the British Isles. London, 1910. Tall, thick octavo, original green cloth. $3200. Click for more info First edition of this golf classic, with 64 fine plates (48 in color) afte r original watercolors by Harry Rountree depicting renowned Scottish, English and Irish courses. Bernard Darwin, grandson of Charles Darwin, is one of the most highly regarded golf writers of all times. “Thanks to Bernard, golf has acquired the sturdiest literature of any game. The best is Darwin’s… because he showed the writers who came after him how golf should be written” (H.W. Wind). “The illustrations, from original water colors, help to make this one of the fine books in the golf library, setting a high standard of excellence that Mr. Darwin would never fail to meet in his later books” (Murdoch 181). Without rarely found dust jacket. Plates generally fine, scattered foxing to interior, front inner paper hinge split, only minor rubbing to extremities, gilt bright. A handsome copy in near-fine condition. Bernard Darwin’s First Collection Of Golf Columns, 1912 68. (GOLF) DARWIN, Bernard. Golf from The Times. London, 1912. Octavo, original gilt-stamped green cloth. $2600. Click for more info First edition of Darwin’s first collection of anecdotes taken from his column in The Times. Bernard Darwin was golf correspondent of The Times for nearly 50 yars. “When he began to write, golf reporting was little more in the daily press than a list of figures at the bottom of a column; by the time of his retirement he had turned it into a branch of literary journalism” (DNB). This is the first collection of Darwin’s Times articles in book form. Tiny bookseller ticket. Slight foxing to edges of text block, a couple tiny bumps to book edges, slight rubbing and soiling to cloth, gilt bright. An extremely good copy.