CURLING IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES. A RECORD OF THE TOUR OF THE SCOTTISH TEAM, 1902-3, AND OF THE GAME IN THE DOMINION AND THE REPUBLIC

A detailed account of the origin and development of curling in Canada and the U.S.A. with a special focus on the Scottish curling team's tour of those two territories during the winter of 1902-03.

Ltd. De-Luxe edition. no. 9 of 160.. Thick 8vo. xv + 788pp. Profusely illustrated with portrait plates and photographs in the text. Original dark blue cloth boards, marginal wear, bumped, adorned by a gilt moose's head on the front cover. Title in gilt lettering to the spine, some minor shelf wear to head and tail of spine which is somewhat tanned. Contents clean and fresh. A very good copy. Signed by the author below the limitation to half title verso with article on the tour from 1975 Scottish Field magazine laid in.