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(GOLF) OUIMET, Francis.
A Game of Golf.
A Book of Reminiscence. With an introduction by Bernard Darwin.
Publisher: Friends of Francis Ouimet and Francis Ouimet Caddie Scholarship Fund, 1963
Stock code: 70862
Price: £425 Currency Conversion
Anniversary Printing, facsimile reprint this copy inscribed "With every good wish Francis Ouimet" on the half-title. Gift inscription to, and bookplate of, book-collector Arthur G. Rippey to the front endpapers. Ouimet was the first amateur winner of the US Open - winning the title at Brookline in 1913. A course on which he worked as a caddie. Inducted into the Hall of Fame and was the first American elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. The frontispiece of this book is one of golf's iconic images - portraying the 20 year-old Ouimet at Brookline in 1913 with his 10 year-old caddy Eddie Lowery. This edition was published to promote the work of the Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund, which was created to give college scholarship support to children who worked as caddies at clubs in Massachusetts.
Octavo. Original green cloth, title to upper board and spine in black, eighteenth hole device to upper board in black and red. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 illustrations. Very good in slightly rubbed jacket.
