GREEN MEMORIES BY BERNARD DARWIN 1928 SIGNED FIRST EDITION

GREEN MEMORIES BY BERNARD DARWIN 1928 SIGNED FIRST EDITION

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[DARWIN, BERNARD]. Green Memories. London: Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.

First edition. Inscribed by the author. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (230 x 145 x 40 mm). Pp. 333. English text. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering on the upper cover and spine. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. Half-tone frontispiece from a photograph of the author, plus seven half-tone plates. Inscribed by Darwin on the front free endpaper, "J. C. R. from B. D., Sept- 1928..." Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square. Some light marking to covers. Spine ends slightly crushed. Interior very lightly toned. Without the dust jacket.

Notes: True first edition and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Bernard Darwin, grandson of the famous naturalist, is regarded as one of golf's greatest writers. "It was in his autobiographical writing that he scored most heavily. In Green Memories, his style was nostalgic without becoming sentimental. It brought vividly to life the gentle pleasures of childhood and family life" (ODNB). The first volume of memoir by the golf writer of whom Herbert Warren Wind wrote on his induction into World Golf's Hall of Fame, "to start at the beginning, Bernard Darwin is the greatest writer on golf the world has ever known. He is much more than that. He may be the greatest of all sportswriters." A notably uncommon, signed copy.

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