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An early golf instruction book. A few small rubs to the covers & light fading to the spine. Occasional lignt pencil marks in the margins. A very good or better copy.

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).

143 pages. Bright clean copy of this unusual tome on the theology of golf. Covers protected in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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.)

143 pages. Bright clean copy of this unusual tome on the theology of golf. INSCRIBED ON THE UPPER FFEP: "D. O. THOMAS AFTER PREACHING AT THE 1935 MUIRFIELD OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP." Small Glasgow bookseller label upper pastedown. Clean covers, contents clean and tight. Unclipped, uncommon dust jacket with edge loss mostly to the front panel, protected in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall