Title:Picture Analysis of Golf Strokes: A Complete Book of Instruction
Author:Barnes, James M. [4], 252 pp. Illustrated with a photographic series by L. F. Deming. 4to. Gilt-lettered green cloth, pictorial cover label, original pictorial jacket (laid in). First Edition. Signed by the author on the front cover "with best wishes, J.M. Barnes, Oct. 30th 1919." Includes the rare jacket, folded and laid in, with chips, tears, old tape repairs, etc. "An unusually handsome book of instruction...the first book in which photographs were reversed so left-handers could compare their swings with that of a professional" - Murdoch 37; D&M 6170; D&J B5980.
Place:Philadelphia & London
Name:Lippincott
Date:1919
Author:Barnes, James M. [4], 252 pp. Illustrated with a photographic series by L. F. Deming. 4to. Gilt-lettered green cloth, pictorial cover label, original pictorial jacket (laid in). First Edition. Signed by the author on the front cover "with best wishes, J.M. Barnes, Oct. 30th 1919." Includes the rare jacket, folded and laid in, with chips, tears, old tape repairs, etc. "An unusually handsome book of instruction...the first book in which photographs were reversed so left-handers could compare their swings with that of a professional" - Murdoch 37; D&M 6170; D&J B5980.
Place:Philadelphia & London
Name:Lippincott
Date:1919
Condition report
Leaning a bit, light shelf wear; else near fine, jacket just fair but quite scarce.
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Fine Golf Books and Collectibles
1:00 PM PT - Jul 26th, 2007
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