Item #352562 How to Play Golf. Whigham, enry, ames.
How to Play Golf
How to Play Golf

First American Book of Golf Instruction & First Action Golf Photos

How to Play Golf.

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1897.

First edition. Illustrated with action photographs by E. Burton Holmes. [6], 313, [1] pp. 1 vols. Sm 8vo. First American Book of Golf Instruction & First Action Golf Photos. Publisher's blue cloth. Light wear, a near fine copy Donovan & Murdoch 4600; D&J W11320; Kramer 140. Item #352562

A very nice copy of the first book of golf instruction published in America, and the first to contain “action” photographs of golfers making their shots. The cornerstone to any golfing library. Whigham, then of the Chicago Tribune was a two time U.S. Amateur Champion in 1896 and 1897 and son-in-law to C.B. MacDonald.

Price: $400.00 Free Domestic Delivery