Whitcombe Ernest (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 18.5x12.5cm. First edition, dated from Author's Note. pp(10)134 with caricature frontispiece of the author, and numerous in-text instructional and comic illustrations. Original red cloth, backstrip titled in gilt. Backstrip moderately faded, gilt dull. Front cover faintly marked adjacent to lower edge, slightly bumped at upper outer corner, and with patches of minor cloth-lift towards fore-edge and lower inner corner. Flyleaves at both front and rear faintly toned, pastedowns with a little paper residue from an unknown source. Edges of text-block a little toned. Contents clean and tight. GOOD copy.…

Both parts in one volume covering the basics of playing golf, written by the champion player of the 1920s and 30s and illustrated with nice explanatory drawings and diagrams. 8vo. 134pp. Cloth-covered boards. Spine and boards are lightly rubbed. Good condition.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated, 134 pages. Multiple tournament winner in the 1920s and 1930s. Red cloth binding with gilt title in very good condition. Slight offset to free endpapers otherwise clean, Unclipped jacket with some chipping head of spine and top edge, protected in mylar. D. C. W. Sabine (illustrator).…