Golf: a royal and ancient game
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
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Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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John Pearson is the editor of 'Through the Green', the magazine of the British Golf Collectors Society. The BGCS was founded in 1987 with the aim of promoting interest in the history of golf, as well as collecting items associated with its history. He is co-author and editor of three golf club histories - Cumbria Union, Writing a Golf Club History and Cecil Keitch, Champion Golfer - and writes on golf heritage for magazines in the USA, Europe and Australia. He is also Secretary to the trustees of the Women Golfers' Museum.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9031
- Title
- Golf: a royal and ancient game
- Author
- -----
- Format/Binding
- Half-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- R. & R. Clark
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1875
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Golf Early Golf Books Golf at St Andrews Golf Essays
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