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BADDIEL**, SARAH - an Introduction by Peter Dobereiner : GOLF THE GOLDEN YEARS: A PICTORIAL ANTHOLOGY.** [Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.BRACKEN BOOKS,1989.

ISBN 1851703209.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Author is probably the world's foremost dealer in golfing literature and ephemera. Golfiana,her shop in Grays Antique Market, London,is well-known to professionals and amateurs alike,on both sides of the Atlantic.This book has her bookshop's gilt with black ink printed,adhesive label situated to lower,right-hand corner of front pastedown.This indicates the book being purchased there and subsequently SIGNED by her either at time of,or possibly,prior to purchase.] FINE+/NFINE. No owner inscrptn but author's neat,blue ink inscrptn+signature: 'Golfingly yours Sarah Baddiel' to title page and no price- clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,montage'd colour photographic golfing ephemera illustrated dw/dj panels,with green,white and yellow lettering to front panel and black lettering to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Majority of light creasing restricted to top edges of dw/dj.Minimal rubbing with slight colour fade to both head+foot of spine/backstrip and both top+ bottom edges of the boards.Top+fore edges bright and clean; contents virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a white headband and clean plain white eps.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED, 1st edn,8-173pp [paginated] includes an introduction by Bernard Darwin,3 sections, over 220 coloured illustrations throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half title page with colour photograph of a golfer figurine to it's recto,title page,contents list/table,a foreword by Peter Dobereiner,an afterword by author/ compiler (Sarah Baddiel) and an alphabetical list of ephemera. "Golf: The object is to drive a gutta-percha ball in the smallest number of strokes into a succession of holes, scattered most of them at wide intervals from each other over some waste track of turf. . ." So The Pall Mall Gazette attempted to describe the game in November,1868. Inauspicious beginnings; but since then, the game of golf has captured and held the imagination of millions,all over the world.Today,golf can be something of an industry,in which a fortune can be won or lost on a missed putt.But there was a golden age of golf: an age of amateurism and near-innocence; one that all lovers of the game think of with affection and a touch of nostalgia. 'GOLF: THE GOLDEN YEARS' is a celebration of that age: the end of the 19th century and the first 40 years of the 20th,when giants of the game such as Vardon and Sarazen walked the links,and the colossus that was Bobby Jones towered over them all. Divided into three sections,and introduced by a history of golf in the golden age from the incomparable pen of Bernard Darwin,the book covers the whole spectrum of the golfing world.On every page there is something to entertain, delight and inform. The first section - Great Moments,Great Courses - ranges from a report of a pilgrimage to St. Andrews in 1892,through Sarazen's great charge at the Open in 1932,to a 1937 report of the world's most testing finish: the last two at Carnoustie.Great Characters,the second section,profiles Tom Morris,"the Father of Golf",and reports on the life and play of the remarkable Bobby Jones. The final section - A Golfing Bag - covers such vital matters as etiquette on the golf course and a defence of caddies, as well as tips on play from names that are now legends. Beautifully illustrated throughout from the collections of one of the world's leading experts on golfing ephemera and those of her friends,'Golf: The Golden Years' is a treasure-house to delight all golfers - scratch players and duffers alike - and be an invaluable source of reference to collectors. Not only does it bring to life the players,the courses and the great moments from golf's golden age; it also conveys a sense of the sheer fun,the exhilaration, and - sometimes - the low comedy of a day on the links. Sarah Baddiel fell in love with the game of golf some 12 years ago (then 1989). Since then,she has become probably the world's foremost dealer in golfing literature and ephemera. She is a member of the Golf Collector's Society of America and the British Golf Collector's Society,and frequently contributes to golfing magazines and books; she wrote for the section on Collecting Golfiana for the Library Association's definitive 'Sourcebook of Golf'. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight - 1160gms unpackaged - for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
'Golfingly yours Sarah Baddiel'

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