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Sale 375: Fine and Rare Golf & Baseball: Books, Photographs & Other Collectibles (#375) 03/06/2008 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 03/06/2008 1:00 PM PST

Lot #66 The Country Club, 1882-1932

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$250

Estimate: $400 - $700

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Description

Title:

The Country Club, 1882-1932

Author:

Curtiss, Frederic H. & John Heard

Place Published:

Brookline, MA

Publisher:

Privately Printed for the Club

Date Published:

1932

Description:

x, 213 pp. Illustrated with 18 plates from sepia-tone photographs with tissue-guards, including frontispiece; plus several golf course map drawings. 10¼x8, green cloth, lettered and with decoration in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. First Edition.

Murdoch calls this "a rich and handsome production which recites the long, rich and handsome history of the first country club in this country" - Murdoch 167; D&M 13660; D&J C30520.

Condition:

Spine ends and corners a bit bumped, slight lean; front endpapers possibly replaced (not gilt on top edge of flyleaf and evidence of paper loss on front pastedown behind the presumed new pastedown); still very good or better, nice clean copy.

Item#:

190181

Headline:

Curtiss Heard The Country Club History Brookline
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