Travers, Jerome D. and Grantland Rice. The Winning Shot. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. First Edition.
A first edition copy of The Winning Shot by Jerome D. Travers and Grantland Rice. Jerome D. Travers was a prominent figure in early 20th-century golf, noted on the title page as Open Champion and Four Times Amateur Golf Champion of the United States. The book was published in 1915 by Doubleday, Page & Company in Garden City, New York.
This octavo volume is bound in the publisher's dark green cloth. The front cover features decorative gilt-stamped lettering and a gilt rectangular field containing a dark green silhouette illustration of a golfer in mid-swing. The spine is also gilt-lettered. The interior contains black-and-white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece.
Provenance marks are present on the front flyleaf, consisting of a rectangular green adhesive label reading Ray F. Davis' Golf Collection 10714 Mimosa Drive Sun City, AZ 85373. Below this label is a handwritten alphanumeric inventory code in black ink reading HTRP13-123. The title page bears the Doubleday, Page & Company publisher's device above the publication year 1915..
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