PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY DARWIN
Green Memories
Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.
First edition. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the upper cover and spine, in the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Darwin on the front free endpaper, "T. G. B. from B. D., April 1928." Eight photographic plates. A fine copy in the very good original dustwrapper, which has had smal chips to spine ends and edges restored.
T. G. B. is Darwin's close friend Thomas Geoffrey Blackwell, the dedicatee of Playing The Like, and a fellow member of Royal St. George's. The first volume of memoir by the golf writer of whom Herbert Warren Wind wrote on his induction into World Golf's Hall of Fame, "to start at the beginning, Bernard Darwin is the greatest writer on golf the world has ever known. He is much more than that. He may be the greatest of all sportswriters." Notably uncommon signed, and in a dustwrapper.
Stock ID: 37092
£2,000.00
