Casual Talks About Golf
Second Shots Casual Talks About Golf
Newnes, 1930.
First edition. Small 8vo. Original olive boards lettered in black, in the pictorial dustwrapper. Frontispiece portrait of the author. A near fine copy, light foxing to the endpapers and page edges. In a very near fine dustwrapper, with a little dustiness to the lower panel.
A collection of Darwin's weekly columns for The Times. "Golf has always had its eloquent apologists but nobody before had attempted to submit his or her thoughts on the subject to the glare of daily journalism. Blandly expressing ignorance of the workings of Fleet Street, Darwin succeeded in making his reports acceptable to a wide public through the milder qualities of scholarship, humour, and urbanity. When he began to write, golf reporting in the daily press was little more than a list of figures at the bottom of a column; by the time of his retirement he had turned it into a branch of literary journalism." (ODNB)
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