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Gilruth, James Davie
Arbroath Golf Course
Publisher: T Buncle, Arbroath;
Edition: 1st Edition
Date of Publication: 1909
Stock Code: 3807
FIRST EDITION. Octavo. viii, 159 pp, [40] advertisements. Portrait frontispiece of Claud Strachan Carnegie of Tarrie plus 10 plates. Scarce folding colour map of the course in 3 panels tipped-in (often absent). Book Condition: Very Good. Pictorial card wraps with red titles housed in bespoke clam-shell box with paper title label. Covers creased mainly to spine and rear; minor loss to head of spine. Sporadic foxing; a little marginal pencil marking. Chip to fore-edge pp 157-8 (text unaffected). Comprehensive work covering the purchase and design of the course from its foundation to publication; one of the earliest golf-course histories ever written. Scarce. £850.00