The American Golfer Six Bound Issues January - June 1928

Rice, Grantland (editor)

Verlag: The American Golfer, Inc., New York, 1928

Beschreibung

Illustrated. 48 pp; 48 pp; 52 pp; 76 pp; 84 pp; 84 pp. Six issues complete with covers: January 1928 Volume XXXI Number 4, through June 1928 Volume XXXI Number 9, professionally bound in red cloth with gilt spine lettering. These rare issues report on Bobby Jones in his heyday, the late twenties, leading up to his glorious Grand Slam year of 1930. Five full color artist drawn covers, the final cover being a line drawing of a golf course scene. Articles by Bernard Darwin, Grantland Rice, Ernest Jones, O. B. Keeler, J. L. Low, and many others. February contains a Macdonald Smith swing sequence. April profiles three new southern clubs; Yeamans Hall, Radium Springs, and La Gorce. May has an Archie Compston swing sequence and an article on Gleneagles Scotland. The June issue previews the US Open, Hagen's 3rd British Open victory, and an article on the famed Gold Mashie tournament held at T. Suffern Tailer's private course, Ocean Links at Newport, with a full-page, full-color rendition of a painting of Jess Sweetser on one of the greens. Full-page "Fossils of the Past" show T. Suffern Tailer's collection of old Scottish golf clubs by the master makers. Cloth binding in fine condition, original magazine covers bright, all show signs of original folding, although now lie flat after years in the binding. Page seven of the March issue lacks the lower portion of the page where a coupon was clipped, not loss to text or photographs as both pages are advertisements. Covers protected in Mylar. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 204527

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The American Golfer Six Bound Issues January...

Verlag: The American Golfer, Inc., New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1928

Einband: Cloth

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition.