Breeden, Marshall. Us Golfers and Our California Links. Western Book Co., 1923. First Edition.
A first edition copy of Us Golfers and Our California Links by Marshall Breeden, published in 1923 by the Western Book Co., Los Angeles. This octavo-sized volume is bound in the publisher's mustard-yellow cloth boards with the title and a foliate decorative vignette printed in black on the front cover. The work serves as a regional guide and humorous commentary on early 20th-century California golf culture, featuring entries for several notable courses including Burlingame Country Club, the Municipal Golf Course in Oakland, Marine Golf and Country Club in San Rafael, Stockton Golf and Country Club, Red Hill Country Club in Upland, Del Paso Country Club and Sacramento Country Club in Sacramento, The Presidio Golf Club in San Francisco, and Brentwood Country Club in West Los Angeles. The copyright page lists several other titles by the author, including Up, Down and All Around California and Dynamite Gorman, Prizefighter.
The volume features a personal provenance, including a handwritten inscription in black ink on the front flyleaf that reads Merry Christmas. Love, Marian. 1925, accompanied by two seasonal adhesive stickers depicting poinsettias and holly. Affixed to the front pastedown is a printed ex-libris bookplate for Robert John Smith M.D., which depicts a sailing vessel, a terrestrial globe, and an hourglass. Several pencil notations are present on the endpapers, including the dates 7/27/43 and various price marks..
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