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The Green Book of Golf 1923-1924
by Roberts, Henry "Bobs"; Chinn, Allyn B
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
San Mateo, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
San Francisco, California: Leighton Press, 1924. Hardcover. Fair. Twenty years ago golf was played by few and scoffed at by many. Today it is an inseparable paet of our lives. America, and particularly Caifornia, is the golfing playground off the Universe. The Green Book of Golf aims to be your daily golf guide. The record of every important tournament is presented to you in detail. Every golfer in these parts is given a rating..." (p. 5). Not far in the past, golf was a game only played by the affluent, and on their private courses. This book provides a directory of California's private courses of the time, the members of the clubs and their handicaps and the competitions scheduled for them, with pages are devoted to the professional golfers and their tournaments which the club members enjoyed attending. Many relevant advertisements are included, with the final page devoted to the printers of the volume. A wonderful glimpse into California a century ago. Overall Fair. The interior of the volume is clean, the hinges and text block are sound and square, the exterior leaves a little to be desired, limp leather is extensively sunned (and no longer green), separation at top of front and rear joints, with some loss of leather. Please view the photos. Measures 10.5" by 7", [1-2] 3-534pp. Scarce in the trade and very few to auction over the recent past.
Details
- Bookseller
- B Street Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JE19
- Title
- The Green Book of Golf 1923-1924
- Author
- Roberts, Henry "Bobs"; Chinn, Allyn B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Leighton Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, California
- Date Published
- 1924
Terms of Sale
B Street Books, ABAA
We accept returns of any book within 30 days and refund the price, so long as the book is returned in the same condition it was sent.
About the Seller
B Street Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
San Mateo, California
About B Street Books, ABAA
We buy and sell used, rare, collectible and antiquarian books and are conveniently located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area peninsula. We are San Mateo's only used bookstore and have served the area for over 10 years.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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