Golf by Longhurst, Henry - 1947

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1949. Reprinted. 335 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and illustrations. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Pen markings to title page. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is clear. Clipped Jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and panel. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

GB: Dent, 1937. Inscription of owner at start of book. Just a good reading copy, . 1st Edition. Hardback. Good/No DW.

No DJ, good overall with some fading of green cloth along board & spine edges. Tanned end papers otherwise very clean and tight internally. No inscriptions or other markings. 280 pages plus 32 plates.

London: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1947. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N/a. 303pp. 1947. Third edition. In the modern sports 'library' edited by Howard Marshall. A very good minus clean, tight copy. No insriptions except for a number written on a small, neat printed former owner's name and address sticker to the head of the front endpaper. No jacket. Original publisher's green cloth - gilt embossed to the spine. 33 photographic illustrations including the frontispiece and 16 diagrams. Some mottling (probably caused by exposure to sun rather than moisture) to the cloth of the spine and to the front board. Some spottting to the fore-edges. Nevertheless a very clean, tight copy of this book by a classic golf writer.

London: The Sportsman's Book Club, 1951.. I have tried in this book to dissect the methods of the masters for the benefit of the everyday golfer, to weed out their idiosyncrasies and extract the elementary basic principles to which they all conform." (author's foreword). Pp.xxii/280, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs and 16 diagrams, toning to endpapers, 9 point notation to rear endpaper (No.3 "Don't Black-Out!")! Green cloth, gilt title to spine, edges rubbed. G+.

J. M. Dent and Sons, London, 1937, second impression, Modern Sports series,. 1937. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, xvi,335pp, illustrated, pages browning, foxing on edges and title page, two small cuttings pasted to endpapers, text clean and sound, green cloth, rubbed, partly cracked and frayed on front spine edge, Fair condition / no dustwrapper .

London: J.M Dent & Sons. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in Publisher's green coloured cloth with gilt lettered title to spine,no dust-jacket.The book has one small and neat previous inscription to the front endpaper.Illustrated with 33 pages of photographs and 16 diagrams,nice copy for the collector,8vo 303pp First Edition 1st Impression [1937] . Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1937.

London: Dent, 1947. 3rd Edition. . Book Book Hardcover. Very Good/Good. London: Dent, 1947. 3rd Edition . Very Good/Good. pp335. Octavo. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine (fading) in grubby photographic DW. Small tears to corners of DW. First published in 1937, a revised edition was issued in 1943. This is the first printing of 1947's New Revised Edition.

GB: Dent, 1945. This is a 1945 reprint of the new edition of 1943. Inscription of owner at start of book. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Clean DW is a little worn with slight loss to spine dns. . Reprint. Hardback. VG+/VG- DW.

London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1947. New Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with 33 pages of photographs and 16 diagrams, original green cloth binding in a chipped but now protected dustjacket. A very good copy. Modern sports edited by Howard Marshall. ; 200 x 135mm; xvi, 335 pages .