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Fine Golf Books & Memorabilia
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Title: Drives and Puts
Author: Camp, Walter and Lilian Brooks Description: 243 + 14 ad pp. Frontispiece of a woman golfer by H.C. Ireland, with tissue-guard; vignette on title page. 7x4½, pictorial green cloth in an arts and crafts trade binding, depicting a man and woman strolling on a green, holding golf clubs, top edge gilt, matching pictorial jacket. First Edition.Rare in jacket. A collection of short stories by the father of American football (he authored the first book on the subject) and Miss Brooks, a popular writer of magazine stories of the time. Murdoch 108; D&M 780; D&J C2710. Heading: Place Published: Boston Publisher: L.C. Page Date Published: 1899 Condition reportExtensive tape repair on verso of jacket, jacket edges and spine sunned, chipped and creased; slight edge wear to volume; label of golf book collector Victor T. McConnell on rear pastedown; near fine volume in good jacket.
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