FIRST GOLF BOOK TO USE HIGH-SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY: BARNES’ PICTURE ANALYSIS OF GOLF STROKES, 1919
BARNES, James M. Picture Analysis of Golf Strokes. A Complete Book of Instruction. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1919. Quarto, original green cloth gilt, mounted cover illustration.
First edition of the first golf book to use high-speed sequence photography, with over 300 stop-action photographic illustrations of technique.
Winner of the 1921 U.S. Open and the 1925 British Open, Barnes himself modeled for the many photographs, demonstrating the preferred technique. Picture Analysis "was also unusual for being the first book in which photographs were reversed so left-handers could compare their swings with that of a professional… an unusually handsome book" (Murdoch 37). Donovan & Murdoch 6170.
Text and plates fine; thin scratch to mounted photographic illustration on front cover. Cloth unusually clean and fresh, gilt bright. A lovely, near-fine copy.