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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. Very Good+ condition. A few brown speckles (foxing) on 4 or 5 preliminary pages. No owner's name or bookplate. Bright, clean, square, tight. Scarce book on golf. Among 9 chapters are: Why Men Play; Hazards and Clubs; An Honest Golfer on the Links of Life; The Democracy and Courtesy of Golf; Don't Press; The Theology of Golf; The First Hole and Last; etc. Cited in Donovan/Murdoch #38320 (THE GAME OF GOLF AND THE PRINTED WORD, 1566-1985, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GOLF LITERATURE). Publisher's logo (GHD monogram) appears at the foot of the title page. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Original red cloth/No Dust Jacket. 143pp. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed).

Hardcover first edition - First printing. A book, which uses the game of golf as an analogy to "the greater game of life." Murdoch commented that it is "difficult to decide whether this is a book of theology with golf overtones, or a golf book with a highly moral tone" - however, the publishers had no such difficulties - the back cover of the quite uncommon dust jacket contains a list of "religious books worth while." 143 pp. Very good in red cloth with black lettering in a fair dust jacket (tape reinforcement to the interior lower edge, some discoloration to the spine of the dj, general rubbing and edgewear, but an intact and quite decent copy of a very hard to find dust jacket.)