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Cloth. Zustand: Good Plus. First Edition. 132 pages, with more than forty illustrations, the majority full page photographs, some drawn illustrations and course maps, with one folding map. Guide covering most of the golf courses of Yorkshire, especially in the West, with a good architectural focus. Timeless Moortown, Leeds, Alwoodley, Huddersfield, Keighley (some members have been heard calling it 'Royal' Keighly), Ilkley, etc. Section on the best holes in Leeds and District and a very interesting chapter entitled "Are Golf Courses Too Long". (Note: I find it odd that the majority of modern golfers do not realize how far an old balata covered ball with rubber core and rubber strands wound as tight as the manufacturer or player wanted them (unregulated at the time), could be struck. 300-yards was no problem for the long hitters. Bernard Darwin wrote about the growing problem of too-short courses in 1913!) In original gray-green cloth with green lettering on cover and spine. Spine not faded, lettering complete. Lower front cover lightened with several small spots. Original endpapers, hinges tight, inscription ffep: "C A Mackenzie Jan 11th 1936 from L. P. S." Contents bright, clean, & unmarked. Covers protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition, 8vo., pp.(vii),132, green cloth lettered in black, 29 monochrome illustrations, plus pictorial adverts; light foxing to edges and endpapers, lower corners of front board just lightly bruised, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is worn to extremities, with creasing and small areas of loss, and has 4.5cm closed tear to foot of front flap-fold, and 1cm closed tear to head of rear flap-fold, good+ and now in a protective cover.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 132 pages, with more than forty illustrations, the majority full page photographs, some drawn illustrations and course maps, with one folding map. Guide covering most of the golf courses of Yorkshire, especially in the West, with a good architectural focus. Timeless Moortown, Leeds, Alwoodley, Huddersfield, Keighley (some members have been heard calling it 'Royal' Keighly), Ilkley, etc. Section on the best holes in Leeds and District and a very interesting chapter entitled "Are Golf Courses Too Long". (Note: I find it odd that the majority of modern golfers do not realize how far an old balata covered ball with rubber core and rubber strands wound as tight as the manufacturer or player wanted them (unregulated at the time), could be struck. 300-yards was no problem for the long hitters. Bernard Darwin wrote about the growing problem of too-short courses in 1913!) THIS COPY IS THE FORMER PROPERTY OF GOLF COURSE DESIGNER THOS. R. TRIGG, HIS SIGNATURE ON THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE TITLE PAGE. HIS WORK IS DISCUSSED/SHOWN ON PAGES 24, 25, 26, 60, AND 62. In original gray-green cloth with green lettering on cover and spine. Spine not faded, lettering complete. Light wear to covers, corners sharp. Original endpapers, hinges tight, no pastedown stain or offset to eps. Contents bright, clean, & unmarked. Covers protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed By T. R. Trigg.

Zustand: Good, corners a little worn. 132pp Illustrated from photographs and with small course maps. Previously unrecorded binding. D&J R12580.

Guide to the golf courses of Yorkshire, some well-known, others less so: Alwoodley, Fixby, Horsforth, Keighley, Roundhay, Starbeck, Wetherby, to name a few. 8vo. [vi] + 132pp. Full-page illusts & illusts in the text throughout, adverts. 1 map. Original cloth, small stain to front cover and covers sl sunned, page edges foxed and minor, scattered spots of internal foxing, mainly marginal. A good copy of this uncommon title.

Zustand: Very Good. 132p, Illustrated cloth. From photographs and with small course maps. More than forty illustrations, the majority full page photographs, some drawn illustrations and course maps, with one fold-out map. Guide covering most of the golf courses of Yorkshire, especially in the West, with a good architectural focus. Timeless Moortown, Leeds, Alwoody, Huddersfield, Keighley (some members have been heard calling it Royal Keighly), Ilkley, et al. Section on the best holes in Leeds and District and an very interesting chapter entitled "Are Golf Courses Too Long".(Note: I find it odd that the majority of modern golfers do not realize how far an old balata covered ball with rubber core and rubber strands wound as tight (not regulated) as the manuracturers or players wanted them could be struck. 300-yards no problem for the long hitters. D&J R12580.

Zustand: Very good. 132p, Illustrated cloth. From photographs and with small course maps. More than forty illustrations, the majority full page photographs, some drawn illustrations and course maps, with one fold-out map. Guide covering most of the golf courses of Yorkshire, especially in the West, with a good architectural focus. Timeless Moortown, Leeds, Alwoody, Huddersfield, Keighley (some members have been heard calling it Royal Keighly), Ilkley, et al. Section on the best holes in Leeds and District and an very interesting chapter entitled "Are Golf Courses Too Long".(Note: I find it odd that the majority of modern golfers do not realize how far an old balata covered ball with rubber core and rubber strands wound as tight (not regulated) as the manuracturers or players wanted them could be struck. 300-yards no problem for the long hitters. D&J R12580.