James Braid by Darwin (12 results)

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:

Condition: good. Signs of wear and consistent use.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. First edition hardcover in price clipped dust jacket. Good/Fair. Original green cloth with spine lettered in gilt, now dulled.The cloth is faded around the corners and edges of the book, corresponding to some chips in the jacket, and the boards are very slightly bowed. There is some spotting around the edges of the text block, and some offsetting to endpapers; there is also a gift inscription (not from the author) on the ffep, but there are no markings in the text. The jacket is in fair condition only - rubbed, bumped, chipped and torn (along and across the spine), and with small loss of text on the rear panel from where a label has been removed. The jacket is now in a removable protective cover.196 pages, including index. Size 20.7 x 14 x 2.1 cm. Black & white illustrations. The picture is of the actual book for sale.

Golf biography of James Braid (1870-1950), a member of the Great Triumvirate alongside Harry Vardon and John Henry Taylor. He won The Open Championship five times and was a renowned golf course architect. Paperback. 8vo.196pp. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Hardcover; 8vo; 196 pages. First edition. Green cloth with gilt on spine. Sunned at head/tail. Lightly bumped corners. Off-white but clean interior. A number of b&w plates. In a green jacket with white and black titles. Quite bumped/chipped edges. PC. In a mylar jacket. VG/VG-. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1952 1st edition 1st impression, neat name and date to free endpaper not price clipped , jacket has repairs and is now sleeved.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 196pp. 1952. First edition. 8vo. sized. A very good, clean, tight copy in very good or very good minus jacket. Original publisher's green cloth - gilt embossed to the spine. No inscriptions. A frontispiece of James Braid and 3 other illustrative plates - all as called for. Upper edge dyed brown as it should be. Some fading to the extreme head and tail of the spine - particularly where the jacket is missing and some fading to the head of the front board. The jacket has not been price-clipped - it is chipped at the tail with some loss of the letters of 'Stoughton'. Some sellotape ghosting to the tail of the spine. Several short tears and nicks have been expertly repaired. No inscriptions. A very good, clean, tight copy in like jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Unclipped. First Edition. Illustrated. 196 pages. The fine biography of five-time open Champion and renowned golf course designer James Braid by the eminently capable writer Bernard Darwin. Professional at his beloved Walton Heath for decades, Braid stands as one of the true giant in the game. Often overlooked are Braid's four News of the World Match-Play Championships. Green cloth light faded at top edge else clean with sharp corners. Ffep with pastedown offset where dust jacket did not cover it, no former owner bookplate, name, underlining, ticking, marginalia, foxing, soiling or tears. Unclipped dust jacket with slight soiling to rear panel else bright with only slight loss at spine ends, now protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First Edition. Biography of the Golfer James Braid.Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in green dustwrapper, illustrated with photographs, Very good book which is faded on the top and bottom edges, in a price clipped dustwrapper which is a little chipped and creased at the corners and spine ends.

Golf biography of James Braid (1870-1950), a member of the Great Triumvirate alongside Harry Vardon and John Henry Taylor. He won The Open Championship five times and was a renowned golf course architect. First edition. 8vo. 196pp. Frontispiece, 3 further plates. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed to edges with small chips to ends of spine. Very good condition.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. 196p, cloth. Dust jacket. Biography of Braid, a year after his passing. Darwin quickly put right the missing life story of the 3rd Triumvirate, Vardon, wrote his autobiography in 1933 and Taylor in 1943. This completes the set of the defining 3 golfers of the late 19th early 20th century, which would make golf what we know it today. Must have biography. D&J D5740.

196p, cloth. Leather. Limited edition No. 65/200 Produced in conjunction with the 1981 Ryder Cup held at James Braid's home course, Walton Heath. Reproduced from the original. Biography of Braid, a year after his passing. Darwin quickly put right the missing life story of the 3rd Triumvirate, Vardon, wrote his autobiography in 1933 and Taylor in 1943. This completes the set of the defining 3 golfers of the late 19th early 20th century, which would make golf what we know it today. Key biography. D&J D5740.