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Stamford, CT: Flagstick Books/Ailsa. Near Fine, NO dj. 2005. reprint. hardcover. 12mo . 305pp . Facsimilie reprint of the 1893 original. .

NP: Ailsa/Flagstick. Near Fine, NO dj. 2005. reprint. hardcover. 8vo . 305pp . Slightest rubbing to cloth. BTW, ISBN matches a different book!! Might be worth confirming, especially if this is Amazon. .

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Golf - A Royal and Ancient Game.

Paperback / softback. New.

Herzberg Press, 2011-08-18. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Herzberg Press, 2011. Paperback. New. 346 pages. 8.40x5.50x1.00 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Herzberg Press. paperback. New. 5x0x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Macmillan, 1893. 2nd edition.. Hardback. Cloth, G+. xxviii+305pp, b/w frontis, title vignette, 5 b/w plates with tissue guards, many b/w illustrations, index, occasional foxing with some to the title, spine lettering dulled, edges rubbed & bumped, a fair copy. Originally published in 1875 for private circulation. A collection of early writings on golf, collected by the keen Edinburgh golf enthusiast Robert Clark [ 1825 - 1894 ].

Macmillan, London. 1893. Second edition. Macmillan, London. 1893. Hardback. Green cloth, gilt type to spine and gilt illus. to upper board. Top edge gilt. Frontis. + illus. to title-page + illustrated throughout. xxviii + 305 pages. Extremties v. sl. bumped and rubbed, spine lightly sunned and creased. Internally clean and sound. A nice copy.

Macmillan & Co. London. 1899. Second edition, Third printing overall. This edition listed as the "cheap reissue". Originally published in 1875, this printing adds the new rules of Golf, as adopted by the Royal and Ancient and also updates the R. & A. medal list. Small 4to. (8.5 x 6.4 inches). Illustrated with six plates and sixteen wood engravings by various artists including Hugh Thomson, James Drummond and Birket Foster. Decorative head and tail pieces & initial letters by Clark Stanton and C. A. Doyle. A few pages affected by foxing but mostly a very bright clean copy finely bound in recent full dark green morocco, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated with club and players devices and lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. Overall a very good copy in an attractive leather binding.

Edinburgh, Printed by R. & R. Clark, 1875. . First Trade edition. Sml. 4to., title heightened in gilt, illustrated frontispiece, six further plates, one map, numerous illustrations and decorations, contemporary quarter morocco over cloth, rebacked preserving contemporary backstrip, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, light age-toning to paper and a few spots to endpapers otherwise in a very good state.

R & R Clark. Edinburgh., 1875.. First Edition.. A Very Good copy. Dust Jacket shows slight wear. . Green cloth hardcover, decorative front cover, illustrated throughout with frontispiece, nine full-page plates, numerous wood engravings, Plan of the Golfing Course over St. Andrews' Links, numerous Borders, Head and Tail Pieces, and Initial Letters, by Clark Stanton, C. A. Doyle, and G. Aikman, title page in black and red type surrounded by gold decorated border.vi-xxi; 2-283 numbered pages including Appendix and Index.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1899. Widely regarded as one of the most significant, as well as best produced, early books on the history of golf, Clark's work is a compilation of the earliest literature on the game. In assembling the book, Clark, a well-known Edinburgh printer, collected early press reports, biographical sketches, significant acts of Parliament, municipal records, diaries, and extracts from the minutes of the earliest golf clubs" Murdoch 128; D&M 900.