A Collection of Golf Course Architecture Books, including First and Limited Editions (DJ)
An assortment of five volumes focused on the history and design of golf course architecture. The collection includes:
Geoffrey S. Cornish, Eighteen Stakes on a Sunday Afternoon: A Chronicle of North American Golf Course Architecture. Published by Grant Books, Worcestershire, UK, 2002. This is a limited edition of 700 copies, with the title page bearing an ink-stamped number 115. Bound in publisher's cloth with a pictorial dust jacket.
Robert Trent Jones, Jr., Golf by Design: How to Lower Your Score by Reading the Features of a Course. Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1993. Stated first edition with the number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. Features a foreword by Tom Watson and is bound in publisher's cloth with a pictorial dust jacket.
Anthony Pioppi, To the Nines. Published by Sports Media Group, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006. First edition indicated by the number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Features a foreword by Brad Faxon and is bound in publisher's boards with a pictorial dust jacket.
Bradley S. Klein, Rough Meditations. Published by Sleeping Bear Press, Chelsea, MI, 1997. The copyright page displays the number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Bound in publisher's cloth with a pictorial dust jacket.
H. S. Colt and C. H. Alison, Some Essays on Golf-Course Architecture. Published by Grant Books, Droitwich, 1993. This is the second Grant Books edition, limited to 1000 copies. The volume includes contributions by Alister MacKenzie and others, with an introduction by Geoffrey S. Cornish and Fred Hawtree. This is a softcover edition in pictorial wrappers..
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The collection features high-quality photographic illustrations and comprehensive chronicles of golf design history.