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Bobby Jones & Keeler Down Fairway Golf Sgd Ltd

Title: Down the Fairway: The Golf Life and Play of Robert T. Jones, Jr.
Author: Jones, Robert T[yre] (''Bobby''), Jr. & O. B. Keeler
Description: 239 pp. Foreword by Grantland Rice. Illustrated with plates from photographs and from a score card from Sunningdale Golf Club; photogravure frontispiece of a young Jones, taken by Edwin Levick, with tissue-guard. 9¼x6½, quarter vellum & gilt-stamped green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, slipcase. No. 24 of 300 copies. First Edition.Signed by Bobby Jones and O.B. Keeler on the limitation page, and again by Jones on the frontispiece below his portrait. A choice copy of the scarce signed limited first edition, in the deluxe quarter vellum binding, with the rare original slipcase, in custom-made half calf folding box. Considered to be the most sought after golf book of the twentieth century. This copy formerly was in the personal library of George Lewis, noted golf book dealer, renowned for his insistence on exceptional condition, especially for books in his own collection. Murdoch 408; D&M 22730; D&J J12490.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Minton, Balch
Date Published: 1927