1902 USGA Official Golf Guide Book w/Red Leather Cover & Guilded Pages - Rare
Here is the very rare Official Golf Guide 1902, Harber & Brothers Publishers, Van Tassel Sutphen editor. This prized edition sports the original 'Egyptian Deities' (early cigarette company) branded gold guilded red leather alternate covers finished off with matching guilded page edging. The Game of Golf and Printed Word by Donovan & Jerry references this title with the same Grafton publisher as S42400 and ‘1/2 cloth boards’ (different than the reader in this lot). This lot's likely promotional copy also has the same number of (372) pages as the D&J listing. The beginning loose page contains an image depicting the USGA's magazines from this period is just that, a USGA publication advertising page that was part of this edition of the book initially. It is the first page in this book. The edge wear on this specific page is consistent to that spot in the publication, made from the same paper as those pages that follow and it contains a blank back with no text or graphics. It precedes page 1, which is found just after (where a front flyleaf page would be perhaps). We believe this was always part of the print and not an addition afterwards, advertising the then popular USGA magazine, that happened to come dislodged from binding being highly paged through/turned. Each page was accounted for 1-372, with additional Pinkus Bros cigarette addition between pages 20 and 21. Spine has wear and the pages are intact to each other, but separated from binding/covers as shown in the penultimate photo. This is the only time that we have seen this edition, rare in nature and not included in the industry trusted 'The Game of Golf and Printed Word' by Donovan & Jerry.
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