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Title: The Architectural Side of Golf Author: Wethered, H. N. and T. Simpson Place: London Publisher: Longmans, Green Date: 1929 Description: xix, 211 pp. Preface by J.C. Squire. Illustrated with plates by the authors, including a frontispiece, and with several course plans in color; tissue guards; plus some wood engravings and headpieces. 25x18.5 cm. (9¾x7¼"), gilt-stamped and lettered white cloth. First Trade Edition. This is a classic book of golf architecture, with superb essays on the philosophy of golf architecture and ink sketches and color washes; according to Murdoch, it is "a most desirable book to have in a golf library." Simpson believed that only by studying the "Old Course" at St. Andrews could one properly understand golf course design and construction. D&J W10420; Murdoch 841. With a large bookplate on front free endpaper from Hoxie Sherrill Library. Lot Amendments Condition: Light soiling and light rubbing; front hinge cracked; very good. Item number: 255143