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Royal and Ancient Game of Golf

"ONE OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT BOOKS IN THE ENTIRE LIBRARY OF GOLF"

HILTON, Harold H. and SMITH, Garden G., eds. Royal and Ancient Game of Golf. London, 1912.

Limited first edition, number 190 of 900 copies, of Hilton and Smith's tribute to the legendary history and traditions of golf, with color frontispiece and six plates (two in color), along with numerous in-text black-and-white illustrations, including many photographic portraits of famous golfers and courses, in publisher's original gilt-stamped morocco. $4500.

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Mystery of Golf

"THE CURIOUS CENTRAL ECSTASY [OF GOLF] HAS NEVER BEEN MORE THOUGHTFULLY ADDRESSED THAN IN THE MYSTERY OF GOLF" (JOHN UPDIKE)

HAULTAIN, Arnold. Mystery of Golf. Boston and New York, 1908.

Limited first edition, number 229 of only 440 copies of this classic meditation on golf in all its aspects, the volume designed by famed typographer Bruce Rogers, "the most accomplished book designer that America has yet produced" (Lawson, Anatomy of a Typeface, 62). $2400.

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Enchanted Golf Clubs

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE ENCHANTED GOLF CLUBS, IN RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET

MARSHALL, Robert. Enchanted Golf Clubs. New York, 1920.

First American edition of this humorous novel about a self-professed expert in every sport but golf who must learn golf in a week to win the love of a millionaire American widow and golf enthusiast, in rare original dust jacket. $1200.

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Regiam Majestatem

"NA A MAN SOULD PLAY AT THE GOLFE…BECAUSE THEY ARE ESTEMED TO BE UNPROFITABLE SPORTS FOR THE COMMON GUDE OF THE REALME"

(SCOTLAND) (GOLF) SKENE, John. Regiam Majestatem. Edinburgh, 1774.

Second edition in English—an 18th-century fine reprinting of the 1609 first edition in English—of "the first authentic body of laws of the Kingdom of Scotland" (Bishop Nicholson, in Allibone, 2115). The first edition is renowned for containing an early printed mention of the game of golf. $750.

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