A History of Golf In Britain.

DARWIN, Bernard.

Item Number: 140561

London: Cassell & Company, 1952.

First edition of perhaps the most comprehensive modern-day classic in the literature of golf. Quarto, original green cloth, illustrated with numerous monochrome and color plates including frontispiece of John Taylor, folding plan of the Old Course at St. Andrews, index. Contributions by Bernard Darwin, H. Gardiner-Hill, Sir Guy Campbell, Henry Cotton, Henry Longhurst, Leonard Crawley, Enid Wilson, and Lord Brazabon of Tar. Foreword by Robert T. Jones, Jr. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.

"This book," says Sir George Cunningham, Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, "will be a classic in the literature of golf. The names of the contributors, famous for playing the game and for writing on it, are sufficient of that."