PREFERRED LIES ABOUT GOLF: The Real Low-down on the Royal and Ancient Game.

UK,slim,tall 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Previous owner's ink name felt-tip pen crossed out at top corner of ffe and a price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour+b/w pictorial cartoon artwork by John Ireland,illustrated dw/dj panels,with green+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Some light,superficial scoring and indentations without penetration or affecting the boards beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain lime green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim,tall 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xpp+1-100pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,18 chapters,16 full-page b/w cartoon illustrations - all by John Ireland - throughout the text and the book,a note about the author to the rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table and 2pp blanks at the rear.
The true history of golf has long been shrouded in mystery.Now,with the delicacy of Burke and Hare the shroud has been ripped aside to reveal the game's morbid secrets.It is not generally realised,for example,that King James II used golf to lure visitors to Scotland,tranquillized them with whisky distilled from his chamber pot and then fleeced them of their assets.The revelations come thick and fast.Mary,Queen of Scots,had Lord Darnley done in because he refused her full membership.Mary,in her turn,was beheaded to discourage further applications from women golfers.The Society of St Andrews Golfers for years consisted of a roomful of stuffed shirts while the real members dallied with wenches in the cellar and drank inferior claret,hence the reference in the rules of golf to 'watery filth'.With a fine disregard for chronological niceties,Peter Dobereiner leads us through the era of our golfing idols,from Hogan, grimly perfecting the 'pronation' of his wrists,to the adoration of the infant Palmer by the three wise guys bearing golfing gifts,from Player communing with juggle animals to Ballesteros conspiring with Mephisto and Beelzebub.Destined to become a cult book like 'Roots',or Stanley Gibbons' Stamp Catalogue and possibly even his 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire',here is golf's own irreverent Myth of Origin. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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