Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB (22 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Golf. Professional Methods British and American. Advertising booklet. : circa 1935. Edited by Jas. Currie Macbeth, Vice-Chairman, Carnegie Dunfermline Trust and Hon. Secretary, Pitreavie Golf Club, Dunermline. Instructional photos and text. This copy has the name of the sponsor on the front wrapper: John Barker & Co., Ltd, Kensington. 40 pages. 4 x 6 inches. Wrapper in very good condition, but with heavy toning and foxing. Contents clean but with heavy underling and pencil notes. Inventory #15-094. Price: $35. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 15-094

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Modern (1933) Golfing Methods by British and American Experts. Advertising booklet. Edited by Jas. Currie Macbeth, Vice-Chairman, Carnegie Dunfermline Trust and Hon. Secretary, Pitreavie Golf Club, Dunermline. Instructional photo and text. This copy With complements of The Silvertown Co stamped on the verso of the outer wrapper. 40 pages. 4 x 6 inches. Wrapper in very good plus condition, with light foxing, else near fine. Illustrated with special photographs of Harry Vardon, Archie Compston, Henry Cotton, George Duncan, Sandy Herd and Percy alliss. Inventory #15-095. Price: $50. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 15-095

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. How to Play Golf Edited by Innis Brown. Spaulding Athletic Library. No. 4B. In Wrappers. Cover price Fifty Cents. Publisher: American Sports Publishing Company, New York, (1930). Black and white photos and diagrams with text. 128 pages plus pictures and ads in back. Wrappers in very good condition, neat tape repair to gutter on inside of front and back wrapper, foxing to last page and adjacent page. 5 x 6 � inches. Overall a nice copy of an early golf item. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #11-502. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 11-502

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. How to Play Golf Edited by Innis Brown. Spaulding Athletic Library. No. 4B. In Wrappers. Cover price Fifty Cents. Publisher: American Sports Publishing Company, New York, (1929). Black and white photos and diagrams with text. 128 pages plus pictures and ads in back. Wrappers in very good condition, neat tape repair to gutter on inside of front and back wrapper, small chip to front lower corner. 5 x 6 � inches. Overall a nice copy of an early golf item. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #11-505. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 11-505

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. How to Play Golf Edited by Innis Brown. Spaulding Athletic Library. No. 4B. In Wrappers. Cover price Fifty Cents. Publisher: American Sports Publishing Company, New York, (1929). Black and white photos and diagrams with text. 128 pages plus pictures and ads in back. Wrappers in very good condition, neat tape repair to gutter on inside of front and back wrapper. 5 x 6 � inches. Overall a nice copy of an early golf item. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #11-504. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 11-504

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Golf. Professional Methods British and American. Carnegie Dunfermline Edition. : circa 1930s. Edited by Jas. Currie Macbeth, Vice-Chairman, Carnegie Dunfermline Trust and Hon. Secretary, Pitreavie Golf Club, Dunermline. Instructional photos and text. 40 pages. 4 x 6 inches. Wrapper is in near fine to fine condition. Inventory #15-093. Price: $75. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 15-093

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gary Players Golf Book For Young People by Gary Player. Signed first printing in dust jacket. Signed label on the title-page. Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York, (1980). Dust jacket is very good plus condition, a little edge wear. Dust jacket is not price clipped with a price of $8.95. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean. Tape residue to first free endpaper. 110 pages. Black and white photos and diagrams throughout. Protected by Mylar. Price: $75. Inventory #18-012. Language: eng Language: eng. Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 18-012

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Golf Made Easier by Charles Herndon. First edition in gold colored paper over board. Publisher: Parker Stone and Baird, Los Angeles, (1930). Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean. Two small gold squares on the top of the first free endpaper. 220 pages. 8 Black and white photos. Protected by Mylar. Price: $100. Inventory #18-013. Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 18-013

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. (Golf and Cricket) Out Door Games Cricket and Golf by the Hon. R.H. Lyttelton, London, 1901. First edition bound in original green cloth with gold lettering and decorations of The Haddon Hall Library edited by The Marquess of Granby and Mr. George A.B. Dewar. 252 pages including the index. Binding is in very good plus condition slight scuffing. 8 full page illustration and frontispiece in black and white. Contents clean, frontispiece and title-page and last page with spots of foxing. Page edges untrimmed. Pastedown with bookplate of Gerald Hallen Creasy. 5 � x 8 inches. A nice solid copy. Inventory #22-115. Price: $125.

Seller Inventory # 22-115

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Sporting Society or Sporting Chat and Sporting Memories. Two volumes. By Fox Russell. First edition in bright red cloth with sporting figures in gold. Publisher: Bellairs & Co., London, 1897. Binding spines a little darkened else in fine condition. Top edge gilt. Contents clean. Book ads in the front in both volumes. A few pages roughly opened not particularly noticeable. 336,344 pages. 5 � x 7 � inches. A fine set. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #21-046. Price: $140.

Seller Inventory # 21-046

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. (Golf) Hoyle's Games: Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games. Aldine Edition. In brown origin cloth with elaborate blind-stamping. Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, (1857). 316 pages. Golf description on pages 256-257. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean. Front and back pastedowns and first free endpapers with toning. A nice tight copy. 5 x 7 � inches. Inventory #22-113. Price: $150.

Seller Inventory # 22-113

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. Golf Shots by Bobby Jones: Driver and Mashie Shots. First edition Flicker book. Publisher: Flicker Productions, Inc., London, [c: 1930]. Complete and in very good condition, front wrapper with soiling and some wear to the lettering. Contents clean. [100] pages. Illustrated throughout with flip-action pictures of Jones from photographs of him golfing (each direction, one with the driver and one with the Mashie). Approximately 7.5x5.4 cm (3x2"), original staple-bound light green wrappers, printed paper wrapper, lettered in black. Rare Bobby Jones mini flip-book issued as part of a "Flicker" series. D&J J10150; D&M 22610. Protected by a Mylar sleeve. Inventory #20-108. Price: $200. Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 20-108

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Game of Golf edited by the Earl of Lonsdale. First American edition in publisher s beige cloth with gold lettering. Publisher: Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1931. Binding is in fine condition. Contents exceptionally clean, light narrow stain at the top of the ffep and half-title page . 251 pages including the index. 6 x 8 � inches. Numerous black and white photos (plates) including several foldouts. Demonstrations by several well known British professional golfers of that era. Wonderful golf book. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #21-054. Price: $200.

Seller Inventory # 21-054

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Game of Golf edited by the Earl of Lonsdale. First edition in publisher's beige cloth with gold lettering. Publisher: Seely, Service & Co., London, 1931. Binding is in near fine condition, some darkening else fine. Contents exceptionally clean. 251 pages including the index. 6 x 8 � inches. Numerous black and white photos (plates) including several foldouts. Demonstrations by several well known British professional golfers of that era. Wonderful golf book. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #21-055. Price: $200.

Seller Inventory # 21-055

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. (Golf and Cricket) Out Door Games Cricket and Golf by the Hon. R.H. Lyttelton, London, 1901. First edition bound in green half leather and marbled paper. Introductory page states The Haddon Hall Library edited by The Marquess of Granby and Mr. George A.B. Dewar. 252 pages including the index. Binding is in fine condition. 8 full page illustration and frontispiece in black and white. Contents clean, frontispiece and title-page with spots of foxing. 5 � x 8 inches. A nice solid copy. Inventory #22-116. Price: $200.

Seller Inventory # 22-116

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (Golf) Shell's Guide to Better Golf by Arnold Palmer. Printed by Shell Oil with permission of Arnold Palmer Enterprises, first edition thus. 8 brochures with introductory leaf. 38x23 cm (15x9") folded into four panels. Circa: 1959. Presented with original printed box: 23x11.5 cm (9x4�"). Box is in very good condition, missing flap at one end, else complete. Brochures are in fine condition. Protected by a Mylar sleeve. Inventory #20-110. Price: $250. Unlisted in D&M; D&J P3340. Quite uncommon complete with the original box. "Arnold Palmer, one of golf's biggest money winners of all time, attributes much of his success on the world's circuits to his ability to play the percentages. Arnold teaches you the secrets of percentage golf, how to play each shot for the maximum possible results, and how this can help lower your score.".

Seller Inventory # 20-110

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (Golf) Shell's Guide to Better Golf by Arnold Palmer. Printed by Shell Oil with permission of Arnold Palmer Enterprises, first edition thus. 8 brochures with introductory leaf. 38x23 cm (15x9") folded into four panels. Circa: 1959. Presented with original printed box: 23x11.5 cm (9x4�"). Box is in very good condition, missing flap at one end, else complete. Brochures are in fine condition. Protected by a Mylar sleeve. Inventory #20-110. Price: $250. Unlisted in D&M; D&J P3340. Quite uncommon complete with the original box. "Arnold Palmer, one of golf's biggest money winners of all time, attributes much of his success on the world's circuits to his ability to play the percentages. Arnold teaches you the secrets of percentage golf, how to play each shot for the maximum possible results, and how this can help lower your score.".

Seller Inventory # 20-131

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Sporting Pilgrimage by Casper W. Whitney. First edition in scarce dust jacket. Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1895. With 144 black and with illustrations on golf, riding the hounds, rowing, university football, club football, cycling, cricket and more. Brown dust jacket with title, author, England and publisher on the spine. Dust jacket is in very good plus condition, some chipping along the top and bottom edges. Binding is in as new condition. Contents clean. 397 pages. 6 � x 9 inches. This is a volume on sports in England as it may pertain to sports that is evolving in America. A wonderful copy. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #18-402. Price: $400.

Seller Inventory # 18-402

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Golfing Annual 1892-1893 edited by David S. Duncan 1st Edition. Volume VI Publisher: Horace Cox, London, 1893. In original green cloth with decorative gold lettering. Binding is in near fine to fine condition. 368 pages including the index plus ads in back. Contents clean, owners signature at the top of the ffep. 3 portraits, 3 detailed fold-out course plans of Dornoch (in color), Aberdovey (Bernard Darwin's favorite golf course), and Clacton-on-Sea . Several full page ads within the text. Extensive golf club directory. 5 � x 7 � inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #15-514. Price: $460. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 15-514

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Golfing Annual 1891-1892 edited by David S. Publisher: 1st Edition. Volume V Publisher: Horace Cox, London, 1892. In original green cloth with decorative gold lettering. Binding is in near fine to fine condition. 326 pages including the index plus ads in back. Contents clean. 2 portraits, Detailed fold-out course plans the Golf Links at Lea Hurst, Derbyshire. Several full page ads within the text. Extensive golf club directory. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #15-515. Price: $460. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Seller Inventory # 15-515

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (Golf) Winning Golf by Byron Nelson. Inscribed first edition in dust jacket. His first book. Publisher: A.S. Barnes, New York, (1946). 192 pages including 85 number black and white plates plus 4 black and white photographs of Byron Nelson demonstrating the proper swing. Signed and inscribed by Byron Nelson to Ken Hobbs on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket is in generally very good condition with wear to the top and bottom of the spine and along the spine. Front top corner with chip. Back top edge with some wear and small spots of soiling. Jacket is not price clipped with a price of $3.00. Binding is in near fine condition, slight corner bumping. 7 � x 10 inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #20-113. Price: $500. Inscribed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 20-113

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Art of Golf by Sir W.G. Simpson. First edition in original printed boards. Publisher: David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1887. First Edition. 8vo. xii + 186 pages + one ad leaf. 20 plates, 10 diagrams, and numerous text illustrations, engraved title-page. Binding front with an engraving of the Winter Medal of the Honorable Company of Edinburgh. Rear of binding decorated with a pile of four golf balls. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean and tight. Owner s name and location in ink on the half-title page. 6 x 8 7/8 inches. Page 48 contains 3 photos of Old Tom Morris swinging a club. In custom slip case. Nicest copy I ve ever seen. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #21-151. Price: $2500. Joseph Murdoch describes this book as "one of the classic books of golf literature", and it is the first book to use photographs to demonstrate the swing, and also the first to show actual players in action on links courses, including "Old" Tom Morris. Sir Walter Simpson was a 19th century Scottish philosopher and a Captain of The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. He was one of the first people to define what was meant by a golf "links": "The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank bent grass and gorse. Links are too barren for cultivation: but sheep, rabbits, geese and professionals pick up a precarious livelihood on them.".

Seller Inventory # 21-151