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HINSDALE GOLF CLUBABAA

Hinsdale Golf Club: Centennial History 1898-1998

Golf Photograph Album VermontABAA

Manchester in the Mountains Vermont gilt-stamped cover title

191260770Manchester VT: The Equinox House "Photographs / copyright by / W.H. Wallace / Photo- Illustrator 2231 Broadway / New York" 1912. 4to. 17 photographs plus a duplicate of one laid in each 6 x 8 inches mounted on stiff black photo album leaves each captioned in white ink plus 4 larger photographs each 8 x 10 inches laid in at the rear. Seven of the photographs picture views around Manchester the Equinox House a famous New England resort hotel the first two photographs the "Elms" on Main Street 1 the Battenkill River and Green Mountains 2 and Equinox Point 2; the four larger photographs that are laid in feature interior scenes of the hotel. Of importance are the ten golfing photographs taken at Ekwanok Country Club picturing the club house and the golfers on nine different holes of 18 and featuring major golfers of the era Warren Cockran the first President's Cup Winner Fred Herreshoff sometimes referred to as the greatest player to never win a major Walter J. Travis designer of the Ekwanok course and 3-time U.S. Amateur champion and Francis Ouimet who shocked the world with his 1913 U.S. Open Championship defeating the heavily favored Harry Vardon and Ted Ray of Great Britain Ouimet also won the 1914 U.S. Amateur Championship on this Ekwanok course. Other golfers pictured include James L. Taylor one of the founders of Ekwanok and Horace Rawlins an Englishman who won the first U.S. Open in 1895. Wallace was well-known for his golfing photographs in the period with many published in the "Century Illustrated Magazine" and other periodicals and books. We have not been able to locate other copies not in Donovan/Murdock or recorded on OCLC or in other sources consulted. Some of the images are toned but most are sharp and clear full of detail. An important photograph album picturing the sport and in its early years in the United States. Original pebbled leather rubbed. #7987. <br/><br/> The Equinox House ("Photographs / copyright by / W.H. Wallace / Photo- Illustrator 2231 Broadway / New York") hardcover books

Bartlebys Books · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

Golf Patten William ed.ABAA

The Book of Sport

1903243907New York: J.F. Taylor 1903. Autograph edition no. 24 of 50 copies. Hand-colored frontispiece in vol. I The Girl Who Rides painting by Henry Hutt inserted hand-colored frontispiece in vol. II Off Sandy Hook painting by J. Verrier not called for in contents. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings; in this edition the frontispieces and many of the small illustrations have been hand colored. xvi 1-280; iv 281-554 2 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Full green morocco gilt sporting device centered on upper cover with thistles as cornerpieces panelled spine also gilt with thistles t.e.g. others uncut by H. Blackwell. Fine. Autograph edition no. 24 of 50 copies. Hand-colored frontispiece in vol. I The Girl Who Rides painting by Henry Hutt inserted hand-colored frontispiece in vol. II Off Sandy Hook painting by J. Verrier not called for in contents. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings; in this edition the frontispieces and many of the small illustrations have been hand colored. xvi 1-280; iv 281-554 2 pp. 2 vols. Folio. One of 50 copies Superbly Bound. An imposing compilation of sporting personalities and statistics illustrated with drawings and numerous photographic portraits taken especially for this book. THE TWO CHAPTER 80-PAGE SECTION ON AMERICAN GOLF IS PARTICULARLY INTERESTING being divided into "Golf-The Women" and "Golf-The Men" written by the sport's recent champions Ruth Underhill and Beatrix Hoyt and H.M. Harriman and Findley S. Douglas and featuring the leading competitors in the field as well as tournament statistics for 1895-1900. There is a large six chapter 53-page section on COURT-TENNIS AND RACQUETS along with three chapters 48 pages on LAWN TENNIS; four chapters 43 pages on POLO the chapter "Polo in England" being written by Foxhall Keene; chapters on FOX HUNTING COACHING by Oliver H.P. Belmont MOTORING and a final four chapters 80 pages on sail and steam YACHTING by H.B. Duryea and W.P. Stephens. <br/><br/>A MONUMENTAL AND BEAUTIFUL RECORD OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY SPORT. Phillips p. 287 noting only the "Edition de luxe" of 1500 copies; N.Y. Racquet and Tennis Club catalogue 2:26 no mention of limitation; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 281-2; not in Donovan and Murdoch or the yachting bibliographies J.F. Taylor unknown books

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €