Lot
3714
Lot 3714
Golf, humorous – Marshall (Robert), The Haunted Major, Edinb...
Hammer
£40
Golf, humorous – Marshall (Robert), The Haunted Major, Edinburgh, Moray Press, new edition, 1951, 16mo, 192pp, 10 line dwgs., green boards, gilt titles; Hammerton (A.) ed., Mr. Punch on the Links, London, Educational Book Co., n.d. (1935). 8vo, 240opp, colour frontis by H. M. Bateman, 260 monochrome illus., bound embossed blue boards, gilt spine titles; Anon. (J. A. Hammerton), Mr. Punch’s Golf Stories told by his Merry Men, London, Punch, n. d. (1909) , 12mo, 192pp, 196 monochrome illus., marbled endpapers, bound red leather over red boards, gilt spine titles, slight tear to top of spine; Mutson (Mervyn J.), illus. Graham Pilsworth, Golf and Murphy’s Law, Edmonton (Canada), Hurtig, 1981, 8vo, 157pp, illus., green boards, gilt spine titles, d. w. (some minor tears); Houghton (George, 1905-1993), Believe it or not, that’s Golf! London, William Luscombe, 1974, 8vo, 199pp, illustrated by the author, blue boards, gilt spine titles d.w.; Houghton (George), Golf on my Pillow: Midnight Letters to a Son in foreign Parts, London, Stanley Paul, 1st edn., 1958 8vo, 146pp, illustrations by the author, black boards, white vignette to front board, white spine titles, d. w.,; another copy of the same, also d.w. (slightly torn); Armour (Richard), illus. Leo Hershfield, Golf is a Four-Letter Word: the intimate Confessions of a of a hooked Slicer, London, Hammond, 1962 8vo, 123pp, monochrome illus., green boards, black spine titles, d. w.; another copy, similar, but yellow boards, d. w.; Morton (Brig. Cecil), illus., John Cooper, Golf!!! The Confessions of a Club Secretary, foreword by Henry Longhurst, London, Hammond, 1963, small 4to, 93pp, monochrome illus., bound green boards, red printed vignette and spine titles, d. w., mint; Cole (C. W.) & Ralston (W.), Messrs. Kamdene, Barnesburie and d’Alston’s Tour in the North, horizontal 4to, Edinburgh, Andrew Elliott & London, Simpkin, Marshall, n. d. (1890), 25pp, decorated card covers, inner hinges strengthened with archival linen tape; Ralston (W.), Sport for Limited Purses – and the probable Cost, Glasgow, David Bryce, n. d., horizontal 4to, 32pp, 4pp period advertisements, coloured title page, monochrome frontis. and other illus., decorated coloured card covers. (12)
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