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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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