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Lines
on the Links by A. Duffer 1928 James Duffy & Co.Ltd 38 Westmoreland
Street, 1928 [D&M No Ref.]
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John
Desmond Sheridan : IT STANCE TO REASON - The intelligent Rabbit's
Guide to Golf. Published By Talbot Press Ltd 1947 98pp. Illustrated
By Warner.[D&M 34440.] An
enlarged
edition was reprinted in 1963 and contains new material
'Seventh: Thou shalt not steal', 'Women Golfers', Sunday Morning Golfers
etc. There is also a 'variant first edition' which has a green cover
and which I don't consider the actual first for two reasons; the price
on the variant edition is 5'-Net compared to 3/6 on the orginal and
the only time I have ever seen a signed copy was on the edition shown
on the left. Not conclusive I agree but all there is to go on. |
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Patrick
Campbell : How to become a Scratch Golfer 1963 (Uncorrected Proof) |
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Patrick
Campbell : How to become a Scratch Golfer Published By : Anthony Blond
1963 [D&M
47630.] This book was reprinted by Ailsa Inc in
1998 A Flagstick Facsimile which indicates it's renown as a golf book
which extols the importance of disregarding other golf books. |
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Kin
Platt : Murder in Rosslare [A Walker Mystery] Published By : Walker
and Company New York 1985 |
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Martyn
Turner : The Golfer's Guide to World History (65 Golfing Cartoons)
: Published By Blackstaff Press Belfast 1999 ISBN 0-85640-663-5 |
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Marietta
[Pseudonym] : Six Golfing Stories Published By Hodges Figgis &
Company 1905 pp143 [D&M
25370.] Both
the British Library and Murdoch state the publisher as Hodges Figgis
but Harry Brounlow Woods in his book 'Golfing Curios and "The
Like" identifies the publisher as London: Simpkin and cost 1/-
to purchase. His book published in 1910 was the first of its kind
and probably made him the father of Golf Collectors. |
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G.A.Finn:
Through the Green, Lightly Published By: GOLFINN Publications Ltd
[Cork] 1997 {ISBN 0 9531566 0 5}.... "Stories, set in
Lahinch, about golf and golfers, written by a golfer, for golfers
- and those who have to live with them!" |
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Paul
Slevin : Great Golf Holes of Ireland Published By Causeway Press (N.I.)
c. 1993 Foreward By Christy O'Connor Snr. {
ISBN 1-872600-02-6 }. Nineteen Holes superimposed
onto some of Ireland's most beautiful scenery to devise a wickedly
difficult golf course which can only be found in your imagination.
Needless to say the nineteenth hole is a pint of Guinness. |
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David
Feherty : A Nasty bit of Rough Published By St. Martins Press March
2002
{ISBN 1590710002}. |
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David Feherty : Somewhere in Ireland A village is missing an idiot
1st Edition April 2003 Hardcover 301 pgs .{ISBN
1590710096}
Publisher Rugged Land Press |
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George
C. Nash General Forcursue and Co. More Letters to the Secretary of
a Golf Club 1936 |
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George
C. Nash Letters to the Secretary of a Golf Club 1936
New editions (Rhod
McEwan <Click here>)
Letters to the Secretary of a Golf Club Ballater: Rhod McEwan Publishing
2002 ltd edtn of 51, full gr calf, gt dentelles, aeg, facs repr,
head & tail bands, silk ribbon, dec eps, forewords by Sir M
Bonallack & Bo Parnevik, extra foreword by Wilma Erskine with
added fp of Nash, illus by C Millett, 195pp, slipcase, new
Letters to the Secretary
of a Golf Club Ballater: Rhod McEwan Publishing 2002 facs repr,
dw, gr cl gt, head & tail bands, silk ribbon, dec eps, forewords
by Sir M Bonallack & Bo Parnevik, illus by C Millett, 195pp,
new
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George
C. Nash Welks Postbag 1937 |
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William
Rocke: ALL TO PLAY FOR Dublin : Rocphil Publishing, 2004 Description:
382 p. ; 20 cm. {ISBN: 0953277615 }
A fictional novel centred around the Ryder Cup which is being hosted
at the Killeen golf course in Killarney and a love affair between
a farmers wife and an English artist. William Rocke was a journalist
with the Sunday Press for 30 years until it ceased publication in
1995. He set up his own publishing Company "Rocphil Publishing"
and published another golf book "Operation Birdie" (see
below).. |
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William
Rocke: OPERATION BIRDIE Dublin Moytura Press, 1993 Description: 357
p. ; 18cm. {ISBN: 1871305179 } A romantic/triller
set at the Open Championship in Turnberry mingling with the spectators
are Martin Dignam and Marie Kird, members of the Real IRA ...sent
to disrupt the Open Championship. |
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Herbert
Adams: The Perfect Round. London: Metheun 1927, 214p illustrated cloth
19cm 4980 {D&M4980} |
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Mary O'Conor - Links:
Published By Townhouse 2004 {ISBN
No. 1860592228 } Click
Here for more details.
"Prestigious and
exclusive, Redcliff is a golf club with a priceless reputation -
a challenge to even the most experienced player... Donal
- Charming, handsome and successful, the life of Redcliff's captain
seems picture perfect. The reality is a very different story, but
does he have the nerve to risk it all and try to win the happiness,
and the woman, he desires? Madeleine
- Back from New York, the stunning PR consultant is home and hoping
for a new beginning. But as news of her return, and her ambition,
spreads through Redcliff, it soon becomes clear that some people
would rather she had never come back... Marie
- When her husband leaves her for a male colleague, she trades years
of a dull marriage for a second youth. And when fun comes in the
shape of Ciaran, the gorgeous Redcliff barman - life, golf, and
sex, have never been so good!Judith
- Strikingly beautiful, but ruthlessly cold, her cunning determination
usually gets her exactly what she wants. Now, she's set her sights
on the ultimate prize - to be the next lady captain of Redcliff
- she isn't going to let anybody get in her way...
Author Biography
Mary O'Conor is a sex
therapist and author of Sexual Healing, also published by TownHouse.
She lives in Dublin. "
Reviews
"...a steamy enough
romance, where beautiful brunettes fight of stiff competition to
be golf club captains and the blonde wives of adulterous men flee
in delirious freedom from dull marriages into the arms of gorgeous
barmen."
Sunday Tribune
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St.
Martin's Press <Click here>
272 pages
Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
$23.95
Hardcover
Thomas
Dunne Books
Pub Date: 04/2005
ISBN: 0-312-24257-3
The tiny village of Trabane
is tucked far away in the west of Ireland. A coastal resort on the
Atlantic Ocean, the rugged strip of land that separates it from
the beach boasts a golf course designed more by nature than by man.
On 'links' like this golf is much more than just a game to those
that play it. It is a battlefield where scores are settled and every
man and woman is equal. Anything further from the wealth and luxury
of an exclusive country club would be hard to imagine.
Yet to young Larry Lynch,
nicknamed LOOPY, golf opens up new horizons and the chance of a
better life. The story of Loopy about much more than golf, it is
the struggle of good versus evil, played out against a majestic
backdrop of towering sand dunes, emerald green fairways and Atlantic
hailstorms that prick the face like steel knitting needles.
Loopy is pitted against
snobbery, big business and ruthless financiers in a golf match that
is a parable of life itself. Helped only by an eccentric caddy and
a gaggle of noisy supporters, he takes on some of the world's best
amateur golfers in a titanic struggle that will warm the heart of
readers everywhere. Little does he know that he is playing for a
prize far, far greater than a silver trophy.
Through it all, Binchy
imbues the work with a wonderful feel of small town Ireland and,
of course, the Irish spirit.
DAN BINCHY is a farmer
and writer in County Limerick, where he was born and lives with
his wife. His other books include The Last Resort and The Neon Madonna.
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David Feherty: An Idiot for All Seasons
Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Rugged Land (August 9, 2005) ISBN:
1590710606
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Ivan Morris: The Doonbeg
Ghosts 2006 pp 138 ISBN 0-9548040-2-3
Beckenham
Publishing Company
"When certified golf
nut Ivan Morris and his friend James Carew (aka Tail Gunner) were
young, they vowed that whichever of them made it to heaven first
would somehow find a way to notify the other about the quality of
golf in the after-life. Tail Gunner was first to cross the great
divide – and he kept his word, appearing in a dream to reassure
his friend that golf in heaven is just as it is on earth: paradoxical,
frustrating and endlessly fascinating.
Then one momentous day, during a round of golf on Ireland’s
glorious
Doonbeg course, the ghost of Tail Gunner turns up, not only to play
alongside Ivan, but also to introduce him to the ghosts of some
of golf’s most famous and influential characters: incomparable
champion Bob Jones; ‘founding father’ Old Tom Morris;
Sir Alex Shaw, pioneer of golf in Ireland; legendary golf-course
architect Dr Alister Mackenzie; and a host of other players, writers
and course builders. With his other-worldly companions, Ivan travels
through time to visit the great courses of Ireland and the world,
along the way encountering Greg Norman, Darren Clarke, Jack Nicklaus,
Nick Faldo and other leading exponents of the modern game, and all
the while debating the rich subject of golf – courses and techniques,
personalities and philosophy.
Humourous, thought-provoking and highly entertaining, The Doonbeg
Ghosts is an affectionate tribute to this complex, multi-faceted
sport by one of Irish golf’s best-known and most enthus-iastic
addicts."
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