hall darwin (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 210 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 348 pages. 8.75x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. N.d (1912). First (and only?) printing. Large 8vo. in blue cloth and leather spine label lettered in gilt. 212 pp. + 12 inserted pp. of adverts at rear for golf course-related botanical specimens and cabinets. Illustrated with photos, drawings and cartoons. Very good, modest rubbing to the extremities, all gilt lettering bright; mfoxing to the preliminaries and a bit in the text. Important and highly collectible work on the construction, maintenence, plantings, ect. of golf courses, particularly the greens. Includes chapters on the formation and maintenence of putting greens and tees; manuring of greens and courses; grasses and grass seeds, golf architecture, the influence of courses on players' styles; caddies; vegetation of golf lonks; finances, etc.

8vo, pp. 405, [1], xxiii, [1]; portrait frontispiece and text illustrations throughout; burgundy cloth gilt; covers soiled, closed tear on last page, textblock cocked but sound, ex-Minnesota State library with their stamps on endpapers and title page. A history of the early years of the second largest state fair in the US, with a number of pictures of old fairgrounds and buildings.