Round Golf by Bernard Darwin (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Nr Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Nr Fine. 1st. pp223 scarce book. A collection of essays and writings from Darwin during the early half of the 20th century. Sport.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper is price clipped and protected by a layer of clear, non adhesive plastic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. First edition. pp223(1). Black boards, backstrip titled in gilt. FINE copy in FINE unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. NO CHIPPING & NO SPLITTING to CLEAN boards. Internally CLEAN. Neat ink inscription to front blank endpaper dated 1984. TIGHT textblock. NO LOOSE & NO MISSING leaves. The priceclipped dustwrapper is COMPLETE with NO LOSS. Light wear to wrapper extremities. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. A Fresh & Clean copy of this title which is a collection of Darwin's essays chosen from several of his golfing books.

[London and Canada]: Souvenir Press, 1984. 8vo, 223pp. Original black buckram lettered in gilt to backstrip, lime green dust pictorial dust jacket lettered in black, white and red with black & white decoration. One small red smudge to edge, some slight shelf wear to dust jacket. Near fine. § First edition. A pleasing anthology of Bernard Darwin's work on the sport of golf. D&J H26230 (under Hughes).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK IN JACKET 1984. 22x14cm. 223 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket is not torn. Front flap is priced: £.8.95 . Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref wat.3.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. First edition. Accounts of play on 18 of Britain's most famous courses. pp159(1) with monochrome photo plates and in-text plans of courses and individual holes. Green boards, backstrip titled in gilt. Upper extremities of binding faded. Edges of text-block spotted and variably toned; top edge also dust-marked, and green tint faded. Endpapers, half-title and final leaf lightly & sparsely spotted. Contents otherwise clean and tight. VERY GOOD copy in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket lightly but quite densely spotted over front & rear panels, a little nicked, with curved near-closed tear of length about 4cm and associated crease at upper outer corner of front panel, with pale green sections of backstrip panel faded to off-white, and with markings on inside only where selotape strips previously applied as reinforcements.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Black & White photographic (illustrator). 1st Edition. A poor copy in illustrated card covers ; covers used & grubby with 1" piece missing on bottom of spine & tiny piece on top of spine ; no inscriptions ; the saving grace is that all 33 illustrations are complete as is the map (15" x 18" ) with just 3 small tears ; rear cover creased ; page edges grubby ; scarce & suitable for a rebind?

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 223pp, black cloth with green printed dustjacket.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Name in ink on the front cover above the title. Spotting on the outside edge of the pages all around. The spine is good. 153 pages. The inside pages have little seen marks. All the black and white plates called for are present.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Spine bumped & worn, with some nicks. Corners lightly bumped & rubbed, denting on one back corner. Spine slightly faded. ; 8.05 x 6.1 x 0.6"; 127 pages; 23 golf courses (No Carnoustie). Dunbar Included. No date or edition stated.

Illustrated Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Illustrated. 126 pages. Third edition of A Round of Golf on the London and North Eastern Railway (L N E R). From the foreword: "This little book contains accounts of some courses on the LNER. The total number is past counting, to say nothing of describing; so I have chosen just a few in different parts of the country, of different types and qualities and attractions. Of some I know every yard and every bunker; to others I have made too brief pilgrimages, but I have had good fun on all of them and I hope other people may have it too." As with the second edition enlarging the first, this last edition is the most comprehensive of the lot, again with all-new photographs (this time in sepia tone),the largest format, the most number of courses (44), two fold-out maps, and a beautiful color cover illustration making this the most collected of the three editions.Original illustrated wrappers bright with black lettering complete with no loss to corners or edges, light foxing to rear cover. Contents clean, no former owner bookplate, name, underlining, ticking, marginalia, creases or tears; a couple foxing spots. Covers protected in mylar. D&J #D4180 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Second Edition. Illustrated. 153 pages. Published by the railway company to advertise and promote train travel to golfing area served by the line. So enlarged and changed, this title warrants as much attention as the first edition of two years earlier. In addition to 22-courses described therein including St. Andrews, Cruden Bay, North Berwick, Royal Cromer, Dunbar, Silloth-on-Solway (If you've never played there, put Silloth on your list; true links with lots of gorse.), and Ganton, THIS ENLARGED EDITION ADDS Carnoustie, Barry (just up the road and contains a hole Ben Hogan called 'the best par four in the world.'), Gullane, Longniddry, Moor Park, and Lowestoft All described in detail with numerous monochrome photographs ALL DIFFERING FROM THE FIRST EDITION PHOTOGRAPHS accompanying the text. Dunbar was not included in this second edition for some reason. LAID IN IS A RARE ADDENDUM SHEET WITH CORRECTION FOR 19 CLUBS, AND ADDING 16 NEW COURSES IN ENGLAND AND 4 NEW COURSES IN SCOTLAND. Additionally, TIPPED IN IS AN ORIGINAL 3" x 5" NOTICE FROM THE RAILWAY COMPANY HOW TO OBTAIN TICKETS, ACCOMMODATION, ETC. Original tan wrappers with red lettering complete with no loss to corners or edges, no soiling, foxing, staining, scrapes, etc. Contents clean and bright. No former owner bookplate, name, underlining, ticking, marginalia, foxing, soiling, creases or tears. Scarce title in beautiful collector condition. Covers protected in mylar. D&J # D4150 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated. 127 pages. No Date; printed in York by Ben Johnson & Co. Published by the railway company to advertise and promote train travel to golfing area served by the line. Including St. Andrews, Cruden Bay, North Berwick, Royal Cromer, Dunbar, Silloth-on-Solway (If you've never played there, put Silloth on your list; true links with lots of gorse.), Ganton and more than a dozen other fine courses described in detail with numerous monochrome photographs accompanying the text. Original green wrappers with black lettering complete with no loss to corners or edges, no soiling, foxing, etc. Contents clean and pages white. No former owner bookplate, name, underlining, ticking, marginalia, foxing, soiling or tears. Rear cover corner and several of the last pages were at one time bent at the corner and show light creasing. Scarce title in beautiful collector condition. Covers protected in mylar. D&J # D4120 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very good, very good jacket. 159p, cloth. Foreword by Bernard Darwin. Selection of the authors favourite 18 courses. D&J D14350.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No date, publisher or place. Small 8vo. Pp 154. 23 full page photographic illustrations. Original printed stiff wraps, wire stapled and glued; sound but considerably soiled with a small piece missing from foot of spine.

First Paperback Edition. Issued by the London and North Eastern Railways. Small 8vo. 127 pp. Photo-reproductions. Charts of golf courses served by stations on the London and North Eastern Railways for England and Scotland. Publisher's stiff green softcover lettered in black in near fine condition (faint spotting to covers). Darwin's work to publicize and encourage travel by train to the golf courses in Britain served by the LNER. The rear wrapper bears the name "Ben Johnson and Co., Ltd., York." (D & J 4120; Murdoch 192).

127p. Illustrated wrappers green, black text. first edition (and most scarce) in this lovely course description series, 2nd ca. 1927 and 3rd 1937. D&J 4120. Very good, small mark to front board.

Condition: Very good, often very worn. 134p. Beige wrappers, red text. Second edition (scarce) in this lovely course description series, 1st ca. 1924 and 3rd 1937. Great to compare Darwin's description to today's course, most have not changed a bit! D&J 4140.

127p. Illustrated wrappers green, black text. first edition (and most scarce) in this lovely course description series, 2nd ca. 1927 and 3rd 1937. D&J 4120.

Condition: Very good clean wrappers. 127p. Illustrated wrappers green, black text. first edition (and most scarce) in this lovely course description series, 2nd ca. 1927 and 3rd 1937. D&J 4120.