Intimate Golf Talks

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Original gilt-lettered blue cloth, pictorial cover label; housed in a custom slipcase. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear, upper corners have minor bump. Small bookseller sticker on bottom of the front paste-down [Rhoo McEwan Golf Books, Ballater] 8vo; 8 inches tall; [3] 5, 240, [2] + [1] ad pp. Illustrated from [82] photographs. Laid-in is the flyleaf from the dustjacket.. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Signed titles of John Duncan Dunn are rare.

'He makes golf seem amazingly simple, he clearly shows the difference between an essential and a non-essential.'

Elon Jessup, by his own admission a 'duffer' came to interview John Duncan Dunn who was then the head of the great Wanamaker indoor-golf school. This book came from that interview and Dunn's instruction of Jessup.

Background Information:
Dunn originally from North Berwick, trained as a professional greenskeeper and course builder in 1894 moved to the USA and carried several prominent jobs on the east coast before moving to California and became the pro at the Los Angeles Country Club, where he opened several golf schools, and became one of the most respected teachers of his time. Elon Jessup was the associate editor of 'Outing' magazine.

Ref: D&J D21250; D&M 15530; Murdoch 216.