[DARWIN, BERNARD]. Green Memories. London: Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.
FIRST EDITION. 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; half-title; half-tone frontispiece from a photograph of the author, plus seven half-tone plates. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square. Some very light marking to covers. Spine ends slightly crushed. Interior faintly toned with trivial spots to endpapers. Without a dust jacket. Notes: True first edition. 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".
