Spalding's Official Golf Guide 1895 orig wrappers
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Author: Stoddart, L.B., revised by
Title: Spalding's Official Golf Guide Containing the Official Rules and Regulations as Authorized and Adopted by the United States Golf Association, Together with the Constitution and By-Laws of Clubs...
Place Published: New York
Publisher:American Sports Publishing Co.
Date Published: 1895
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43 pp. Photographs and woodcut illustrations within. 16.9x12.8 cm (6½x5"), original pictorially printed tan wrappers, stamped in black, housed in custom cloth-backed clamshell box lettered in gilt on spine. Second Edition.
The rare and early American golf guidebook, preceded by only the edition of 1893, which was the first golf book printed in America entitled Spalding's Athletic Library. An important reference for the history of American golf, it continued to be issued annually until the early 1930's. "The most successful of the 'annual' or yearbook type of publication in America and a real 'bible' of information for the golf historian" - Joe Murdoch. In 2018, PBA Galleries sold Wright & Ditson's 1895 Guide to American Golf for over $42,000 and an 1895 Spalding's Official Golf Guide like this example for $7,000 in 2019. We have never offered an 1893 First Edition, leaving this Second Edition as the earliest. D&J S29675; D&M 4020.
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