Fine Golf Books the Library of Ralph Elder
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Sale 435 Session 1 (Lots 1-400): Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:00 PM Session 2 (Lots 401-729): Friday, August 20, 2010 10:00 AM Fine Golf Books The Library of Ralph Elder Auction Preview Tuesday, August 17 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Wednesday, August 18 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Thursday, August 19 - 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Or 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 REAL-TIME BIDDINGAVAILABLE PBA Galleries features Real-Time Bidding for its live auctions. This feature allows Internet Users to bid on items instantaneously, as though they were in the room with the auctioneer. If it is an auction day, you may view the Real-Time Bidder at http://www.pbagalleries.com/realtimebidder/ . Instructions for its use can be found by following the link at the top of the Real-Time Bidder page. 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Front Cover: Lot 123 Back Cover: Clockwise from upper left: Lots 377, 162, 254, 90 Bond # 14425383 1. A. Stowell & Co., InC. The Seven Ages of Golf. 8 panels with 7 mounted color illustrations. 14x8.9 cm. (5½x3½”), accordion-bound gray paper, with printed outer panel. On verso of the mounted illustrations are panels which advertise the jewelry and silver wares made by A. Stowell & Co. [Boston]: A. Stowell & Co., Inc., 1906 Rare ephemeral piece produced by the Boston silver smith and jewelry merchants. Showing a man and his golf from infancy to old age, with the last panel containing a mounted sheet with an excerpt from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, about the seven ages of man. Not listed in Donovan & Jerris. Pin holes at top edge of 3 panels; one closed tear at a fold; else near fine. (250/350) U.S.G.A. RULES QUIZ BOOKLET 2. [Abbott, b.R.] C., C.G. A Quiz Book upon the U.S.G.A. Rules of Golf. 24 pp. Color illustrations throughout. 13.7x9 cm. (5½x3½”), original saddle-sewn red wrappers, with green cover label. Second Edition. New York: Spalding, [1914] Scarce and delicate little booklet on the rules of golf. Murdoch 1; D&J C1000. Very lightly worn wrappers, a touch chipped, creased a bit; perforated initials “LC” on title page and two very small rubber stamps on verso of title page; else fine. (200/300) 3. AdAmS, HeRbeRt. Death on the First Tee. 192 pp. 18.4x12.4 cm. (7¼x5”), black cloth, spine lettered in yellow, color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. London: Macdonald, [1957] “Written near the end of Adams’ career, this is the last of his golf mysteries.” -Taylor, The Golf Murders, p.33; D&J A2330. Jacket lightly chipped and torn at edges, a 1” chip out of spine heel, lightly foxed; scattered marginal foxing within volume; very good. (200/300) 4. AdAmS, HeRbeRt. The Body in the Bunker. 312 pp. 19x12 cm. (7½x5”), green cloth lettered in black, color pictorial dust jacket. First US Edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1935] The story of the body found in Hell’s Bunker. D&J A2400. Jacket chipped along edges, a few tears, one long tape repair on verso of spine; soiling to cloth, spine ends and corners frayed; name in ink on front pastedown; very good. (200/300) 5. AdAmS, HeRbeRt. The Golf House Murder. 316 pp. 18.7x12 cm. (7¼x5”), orange cloth, lettered in olive green, color pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1933] With a vibrantly illustrated front jacket panel showing the golf club house, and golfers on a green, decorated and lettered in orange, black, and blue. “As in the case in Agatha Christie’s The Murder on the Links, the body being found on a golf course, (or in this case, the club house) is the only golf connection in the story.” -Taylor, The Golf Murders, p.28-29; D&J A2420. Moderately worn edges, especially worn at spine where there are long closed tears, repaired at verso with tape; light shelf wear to volume, evidence of a removed staple from covers (and jacket panels); hinges cracked; good. (200/300) Page 1 6. AdAmS, HeRbeRt. The Golf House Murder. 316 + [2] ad pp. 18.4x12 cm. (7¼x5”), red cloth lettered in black, color pictorial dust jacket. Reprint Edition. New York: Walter J. Black, [1933] The American version of the British title, “John Brand’s Will,” published by Methuen in the same year. With a lovely jacket that replicates that of the first edition published by Lippincott. D&J A2430. Red staining on jacket verso from the red cloth, moderately chipped and torn jacket edges, rubbed; edge wear to volume; name in ink on front pastedown; very good. (200/300) 7. AdAmSon, AlIStAIR beAton. Allan Robertson, Golfer: His Life and Times. xv, 92 pp. Illustrated with photographic plates and facsimiles. (8vo), gilt-lettered blue cloth, slipcase. No. 117 of 1055 copies. First Edition. Worcestershire: Grant Books, 1985 Signed by author on the limitation page. With research into the archives of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews by R. A. L. Burnett. D&J A3030. Light shelf wear to slipcase and volume; else fine. (200/300) 8. AflAlo, f.G. Sports of the World - two editions. Includes: 2 volume edition, bound in blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Illustrated with photographs. Special Edition. * 1 volume edition, bound in red pebbled cloth with embossed cover vignette, lettered and decorated in gilt. London: Cassell, [c.1910] Each with the article on golf by Horace G. Hutchinson at pp. 47. The 2 volume set with heavily worn cloth, many stains - good only; the other very good. (200/300) 9. AIkmAn, George. A Round of the Links: Views of the Golf Greens of Scotland. Introduction by Michael Hobbs. Illustrated from etchings by George Aikman from watercolors by John Smart. 29.7x41 cm. (11¾x16¼”), green boards stamped and lettered in gilt, glassine dust jacket. Printed by the Headley Brothers. Facsimile Edition. [Kent]: [Harry Margary], [1986] Handsome plates depicting the best known Scottish golf links being played in typically bleak weather. Originally published in 1893. In a glassine dust jacket that receives no mention in Donovan & Jerris.