2014 Ryder Cup Auction - Featuring Jack Fleck Collection
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/28/2014
The Mystery of Golf Book
Acclaimed turn of the century British philosophical writer, Arnold Haultain visted numerous subjects in his sought after literary work including war, love and of course golf. His essays on golf stated appearing in the United States at the turn of the 1900's. The classic work of his distinguished writing career is the very limited publishing (440 copies)of the 1908 'The Mystery of Golf'. The revised and enlarged copy of the classic was released in 1912 by The Macmillion Company. We offer that here in fine condition with spine intact, and cover displaying well."In the opinion of a number of leading scholar of the sports world, what Izaak Walton's 'The Complete Angeler' is to booke on fishing, Arnold Haultain's 'The Mystery of Golf' is to books on golf. Simply put, well not so simply put this is a brief account of golf's origin, antiquity & romance; its uniqueness; its curiousness; its anatomical, philosophical, and moral properties;together with diverse concepts on other matters to it appertaining. In other words a little light reading!
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