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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, 10 plates and folding colour map of the course in 3 panels tipped-in, as called for. Publishers’ pictorial card wraps with red titles. Covers a little creased mainly to spine and rear; minor loss to head of spine. Minor 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. Now housed in a bespoke clamshell box with paper title label. Rare. £800.00