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Rare Golf Books & Memorabilia Sale 527 February 27, 2014 11:00 AM Pacific Time Rare Golf Books & Memorabilia: From the Libraries of Louis Weinstein, Richard Donovan & Other Owners Special Preview Reception Wednesday, February 26, 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm with cocktails, wine and cheese Auction Preview Tuesday, February 25, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, February 26, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, February 27, 9:00 am to 11:00 am Other showings by appointment 133 Kearny Street 4th Floor : San Francisco, CA 94108 phone : 415.989.2665 toll free : 1.866.999.7224 fax : 415.989.1664 [email protected] : www.pbagalleries.com Administration Sharon Gee, President Shannon Kennedy, Vice President, Client Services Angela Jarosz, Administrative Assistant, Catalogue Layout William M. Taylor, Jr., Inventory Manager Consignments, Appraisals & Cataloguing Bruce E. MacMakin, Senior Vice President George K. Fox, Vice President, Market Development & Senior Auctioneer Gregory Jung, Senior Specialist Erin Escobar, Specialist Photography & Design Justin Benttinen, Photographer System Administrator Thomas J. Rosqui Winter-Spring Auctions 2014 March 13, 2014 - Fine Books in All Fields March 27, 2014 - Fine Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography April 10, 2014 - Fine Literature with Richard Syncheff Beat Collection, Part III April 24, 2014 - Fine Americana & Western Memorabilia - Travel - Maps & Views May 8, 2014 - Historic Autographs & Manuscripts wtih Archival Material Schedule is subject to change. Please contact PBA or pbagalleries.com for further information. Consignments are being accepted for the 2013 Auction season. Please contact Bruce MacMakin at [email protected]. Front Cover: Lot 259 Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left: Lots 380, 326, 264, 31 Bond #08BSBGK1794 Lot 1 NOTE: All lots are pictured on the online version of the catalog, with high- resolution images showing much detail with regards to condition. For additional lots, check the online version of the catalogue. WITH THE EARLIEST MENTION OF GOLF 1. THE ACTIS AND CONSTITUTIONIS OF THE REALME OF SCOTLAND MAID IN PARLIAMENTIS HALDIN BE... KINGIS JAMES THE FIRST, SECUND, THRID, FEIRD, FYFT, AND IN TYME OF MARIE NOW QUENE OF SCOTTIS. Title page with woodcut arms of Mary Queen of Scots and historiated initials. (Folio) 18th century full calf, spine gilt. With the Acts of King James the Sixth, 1568 bound in at end (but incomplete). Edinburgh: Robert Lekpreuik, 1566 Containing the earliest mention of golf, banning its play. This 1566 printing, one of three issues of the acts in that year, includes the acts of James I to James V and Mary Queen of Scots. The earliest mention of golf is in the acts of 1457 by James II (verso of fol. xl) which order that: ‘futball and golf be utterly cryit downe, and not to be usit’. Instead it is ordered that ‘schuting be usit ilk Sonday’. It was clearly felt that free time on a Sunday should be spent on shooting or archery because it fulfilled a military need. Similar laws were included in the acts of 1471 and 1491. 1566 was the first actual printing of these Scottish parliamentary acts. STC 21876. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Edward, Duke of Norfolk and another of the Rt. Hon. George Rose, and finally E.F. Bosanquet. Extremities rubbed; title cropped at bottom margin, some marginal soiling, occasional waterstains, lacks +4, c4 and A1, +2 remargined; very good. (5000/8000) 2. ADAMS, FREDERICK UPHAM. John Henry Smith: A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life. Illustrated by A.B. Frost. (8vo) red-orange cloth with illustrated cover. Reprint. New York: R.F. Fenno & Company, 1909 D&J A2190 White lettering rubbed on cover and spine; lacks front free endpaper; very good. (80/120) 3. ADAMS, JOHN. The Parks of Musselburgh: Golfers, Architects, Clubmakers. [8], 154 pp. Illustrated from photographs and reproductions, some in color, including a color frontispiece portrait of Willie Park. 9½x7, gilt-lettered green cloth, pictorial jacket. No. 244 of 750 hand-numbered copies. First Edition. Worcestershire: Grant Books, 1991 Signed by Adams on the limitation page, additionally inscribed by him on front free endpapers. D&J 2525. Fine in fine jacket. (200/300) 4. ADAMSON, ALIStaIR BEatON. Allan Robertson, Golfer: His Life and Times. xv, 92 pp. Foreword by J. E. Behrend. Illustrated with plates from photographs, facsimiles, etc., including an old plan of St. Andrews. (8vo) Full blue morocco, stamped and lettered in gilt, publisher’s blue cloth slipcase. No. 19 of 55 hand-numbered special publisher’s presentation copies, this being unspecified. First Edition. Worcestershire: Grant Books, 1985 Signed on the limitation page by Adamson and Behrend. D&M 43080; D&J A3020. Light wear to slipcase; spine faded, small pull at head of spine; very good. (200/300) Page 1 “HE PLAYED A PENFOLD” 5. (Advertising Penfold Man) Penfold Man - Papier-mache advertisement statue of a smiling golfer in knickers and cap. Large papier-mache statue. A man in full 1920s golfing attire: large “Hogan” style cap, blazer, collared shirt and vest, nickers, socks and golfing shoes. He stands with his hands in his pockets, smiling. Meticulously hand-painted in brown, gray, white, green, and peach. 20½” tall. No date c.1920s The base where the golfer stands reads “He played a Penfold.” This papier-mache statue was used as an advertising piece to sell Penfold golf balls. See 393 of Churck Furjanic’s Antique Golf Collectibles. Only the second time PBA Galleries has offered the Penfold (or Bromford) Man, and still no cigarette hangs from his lips (as it did originally). This example is immaculate in its painted decoration: the golfer wears a grey suite, pin-striped in brown, his vest is two shades of brown, and the very little chipping to the paint. Has been immaculately preserved. A very unusual statue made of highly perishable material, this example is near fine with only tiny flakes of paint chipped away. (2000/3000) Lot 5 6. ALLISS, PETER, PETER DOBEREINER, MARK MCCORMACK & ARNOLD PALMER, EDS. The Fifty Greatest Golfers. 116 pp. Illustrated from color drawings. (Folio) original Blind-stamped padded leatherette, hand-crafted by Brown & Bigelow. First Edition. New York: Gallery Books, [1988] Lightly rubbed; very good. (100/150) 7. (American Annual Golf Guide) BROWN, LEWIS J., EDITOR. The American Annual Golf Guide and Year Book, 1927. (ii)-iv, 609 pp. Illustrations from photographs. (8vo) original red cloth, lettered in white. Eleventh Annual Edition. New York: Golf Guide Company, 1927 D&J A6600. Light wear; very good. (200/300) 8. (American Annual Golf Guide) PULVER, P.C., EDITOR. The American Annual Golf Guide and Year Book 1917. 412 pp. Endpapers are advertisements. Illustrated from photographs. (8vo) green cloth, lettered in white. Second Edition. New York: The Angus Company, 1917 Second year of this scarce annual. D&J A6555. Spine lettering largely rubbed away, small tears at ends; very good. (500/800) ARCHIVE OF AN ALAMEDA WOMAN GOLFER 9. (Anink, Mrs. Simon J.) Archive of golf score cards, programs, pairing sheets, newspaper clippings, and more recording the career of Bay Area golfer Mrs. S.J. Anink (Jean Anink). Includes a scrap book with approximately 60 leaves within, each with pasted newspaper clippings for the most part, but also with the occasional original photograph of Mrs. S.J. Anink (3 photographs in the scrap book), score card or other ephemera. Newspaper clippings begin in 1938. Photographs of Anink, include her Hole-in-one in 1940 at Lincoln Park in San Francisco. Includes many pieces of ephemera from the 44th Women’s Amateur Championship of the USGA at Del Monte Golf & Country Club, 1940, including a 4 pp. pairing sheet, an unused scorecard, a “get-together” invitation with envelope, a 4 pp. rules & regulations with instructions for contestants, a receipt for the $5 entry fee, Women’s Golf Association schedule of activities, and a small green pamphlet of Rates at Hotel Del Monte for September 23 to Page 2 29. Another program within for the Del Monte Championship for Women, 1942 (plus a 3 pp. typed pairing sheet), plus other Pebble Beach ephemera: Pebble Beach Golf Championship for Women March, 1942, 4 pp. program, plus an entry blank for said championship, and an invitation to a cocktail party at the Del Monte Lodge. Plus a typed letter from the USGA acknowledging receipt of the entry fee of $5 for the 1948 Women’s Amateur Championship to be played at Pebble Beach. In addition to the scrap book which has the most detailed record of Jean Anink’s professional golfing career, the lot contains 24 loose sheets with attached ephemera, including: used score cards from: Alameda Municipal Golf Course, Annual Del Monte Championship, the Olympic Club (SF), Beresford CC (San Mateo), Claremont CC, Crystal Springs GC (Burlinghame), Diablo CC, Ingleside Public GC (plus a hand-written runner up badge for Ingleside Women’s Championship Aug 1940), 1940 Pebble Beach USGA Women’s Amateur. In addition to score cards are other items of ephemera like: Official Parking pass for the SF Women’s Open Match Play Championship, benefit of the British War Relief, 1941; and then lots more used score cards including one from when Mrs. Anink played Babe Zaharias on March 18, 1941. Also 4 original tickets for the 48th USGA Women’s Amateur championship, and a score sheet (filled out), plus a participants badge (with original safety pins) - she was number 108, an entry notice, score card and original photograph. 1940s Newspaper clippings and related materials about this San Francisco Bay Area golfer Mrs. S.J. (Jean) Anink. Even her sister shows up golfing at some of the same tournaments. She was quite active in the late 1930s and early 1940s, playing at tournaments and championships all over San Francisco, Alameda, Oakland, Del Monte, and more.
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