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THE CLAPCOTT PAPERS

THE CLAPCOTT PAPERS

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The first collected edition of the eminent golf historian's important research archive.

First Edition. Large 8vo. xviii + 518pp. Frontispiece. Light blue cloth, plastic protective wrapper, gilt decoration to f/c. Presented in blue slip-case. Sheet containing brief biographical details of Clapcott, printed by Johnston soon after publication, slipped in. Previous owner's name and address written to front endpaper. A very good copy. No.357 of a Limited Edition of 400 copies.

Date
1985
Publisher
Edinburgh: privately printed by the author
Author
Alistair J. JOHNSTON (Ed.)

£300.00 (Code: 31567)

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