[Rarebooks] FS: Haultain - an essential for Golf and Bruce Rogers collectors

[Nina W. Matheson]

Our book of the day, for your consideration:

66728.   Haultain, Arnold.   The mystery of golf: A briefe account of games 
in generall: their origine; antiquitie; & rampancie: and of the game 
ycleped golfe in particular : its uniqueness, its curiousness, & its 
difficultie, its anatomical, philosophicall, and moral properties, together 
with diverse conceipts on other matters to it appertaining.   Boston and 
New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Original quarter blue cloth and 
yellow paste paper boards. Lightly rubbed at the head and foot of the 
backstrip and corners, edges of the paper boards darkened, pin- hole sized 
hole in the fro nt cover, otherwise near fine. One of 440 numbered copies. 
151 pp. Warde / Bruce Rogers Designer of Books 90. One of the rare Bruce 
Rogers titles. In an article on golf in Antiquarian Book Review, July 2003, 
Peter Robins includes the book in his list of "18 essential golf books", 
calling it "The first book on the psychology of golf: hugely entertaining 
and well-written".   $2000.00


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