The Maurice Neville Collection of Modern Literature (Part III)

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Lot 96
  • 96

Ouimet, Francis

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • A Game of Golf. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1932
  • ink,paper
8vo. Photographic frontispiece and plates. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine on red cloth labels; spine a bit cocked, some fading.

Provenance

Phillips Academy (gift bookplate with withdrawn stamp, call number on title-page verso, and tiny "not for circulation" stamp on rear pastedown)

Catalogue Note

Limited, signed edition, number 77 of 550 copies signed by Ouimet on the limitation page. Ouimet is generally credited with popularizing golf in America beyond the confines of country clubs.