Lot 152
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GLYNES, WEBSTER. "THE MAIDEN". A GOLFING EPIC, DEDICATED TO DR. W. LAIDLAW PURVES, FOUNDER OF THE ST. GEORGE'S GOLF CLUB, SANDWICH. [No place: printed privately for the author, 1893].
GLYNES, WEBSTER. "THE MAIDEN". A GOLFING EPIC, DEDICATED TO DR. W. LAIDLAW PURVES, FOUNDER OF THE ST. GEORGE'S GOLF CLUB, SANDWICH. [No place: printed privately for the author, 1893].

Details
GLYNES, WEBSTER. "THE MAIDEN". A GOLFING EPIC, DEDICATED TO DR. W. LAIDLAW PURVES, FOUNDER OF THE ST. GEORGE'S GOLF CLUB, SANDWICH. [No place: printed privately for the author, 1893].
8°. 19pp. Original red cloth, gilt title on front cover (a little soiled).
Provenance
Joseph S.F. Murdoch, bookplate.
Pacific, 16 June 1998, lot 350.

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Lot Essay

An extremely rare, privately printed book of poetry distributed probably to friends of the author. 'The Maiden' is the par 3 6th hole. When first built, the hole required a blind shot over a thickly grassed mound to reach the green. Murdoch 291.

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