Product Description
Philip Wilson Publishers, Ltd.
, London, 2003, 278 pp.
Illustrated throughout from various old sources and from photographs (some are in full-color).
This book is about the golf ball and how it has affected the game, especially club development and the rules.
From the feather ball era in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the gutty ball era of the 1850s to the rubber-cored (modern) ball era this book literally takes you "inside" the ball with fascinating details of all aspects of the golf ball.
It covers the development of rules pertaining to weight and size--details that were contested in America and Britain for nearly 50 years, and how ball makers sought to make the ball travel further, move straighter and stand up to the most punishing strokes.
Outstanding illustrations.
Oblong dark green half morocco and cloth, gilt vignette on front, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, publisher's slipcase with pictorial label.
SIGNED by author.
No.
193 of 125 hand-numbered copies of the Green "Special Deluxe Edition" (numbered 51-100; 151-200 & 226-250).
Two other deluxe limited editions and a trade edition were also issued.
I will be adding books to my Golf List weekly.
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