Essentials of Golf by Abe Mitchell - 1927

Hodder & Stoughton, 1937. Hardcover. Good. 1937. First Edition Thus. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and illustrations. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pen and pencil inscription and markings to front free endpaper and pastedown. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing and splits to spine ends. Lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.

DJ very tanned, badly edge worn with tears and losses.. Beige boards grubby and discoloured, spine lightly tanned and spotted. Internally, end papers are lightly tanned. Majority of pages are free from foxing, Fore edge and bottom edge lightly tanned. 191 pages with 150 figures, the majority of which are from photographs, the remainder being diagrams within the text.

London: Hodder, 1937 sixteenth edition, 255pp, DW rubbed and chipped to joints and edges, tidy tear at top left of front panel, photos and diagrams. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1927]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Owner signature on front flyleaf. Illustrated with numerous photographic plates. Very good to near fine in dust jacket with some minor restoration at edges.