LOT #91302 |
Sold on Oct 16, 2008 for: Not Sold
Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones, Jr. Golf is My Game. Illustrated with Photographs and Drawings. Garden City, New York...
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Description
Inscribed by Golf Great Bobby Jones
Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones, Jr. Golf is My Game. Illustrated with Photographs and Drawings. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960.Later edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 255 pages.
Publisher's black cloth over green buckram. Original pictorial dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear to the book and jacket. Light soiling to the boards, which also bow slightly. Dust jacket shows minor toning, paper loss at the corners and spine ends, and fits somewhat loosely around the book. A very good copy.
Bobby Jones is one of the enduring legends of golf, the Tiger Woods of his time. A lifelong amateur, Jones was the first, and still only, golfer to complete the Grand Slam of major tournaments in a single season. He was the first superstar of golf, though he retired at age 28, and went on to make instructional films, design golf courses, and found The Masters Tournament in 1934. When he was named a Freeman of the City of St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1958, he was only the second American to be so honored (after Benjamin Franklin in 1759).
Auction Info
2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
October, 2008
16th-18th
Thursday-Saturday
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