2016 Spring Memorabilia Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/10/2016
Bobby Jones & O.B. Keeler Signed Ltd Ed Down the Fairway with Slipcover - #187/300
Signed three times! There is a Bobby Jones signature on the Ltd Ed page, one beneath the photo on the title page, and then one signature with the following inscription:
To John Foster,
With sincere good
wishes, golfing or otherwise
Robert T Jones, Jr.
September 19, 1938
Best of the best. Considered to be the most sought after golf book of the twentieth century
239 pp. Foreword by Grantland Rice. Illustrated with plates from photographs and from a score card from Sunningdale Golf Club; photogravure frontispiece of a young Jones with tissue-guard. 9¼x6½, vellum-backed, gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. No.187 of 300 copies. First Edition.
Signed by Bobby Jones (blue ink) and O.B. Keeler (black ink) on the limitation page, and again by Jones (black ink) on the frontispiece below his portrait. The rare signed limited first edition. Considered to be the most sought after golf book of the twentieth century. Slipcase is brilliant on this one.
Condition: light edge wear; fine internally. James Spence Authentication (JSA) provides a letter of authenticity for the O.B. Keeler and Bobby Jones signatures
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