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THE ART OF BOWLS: PRACTICAL HINTS ON HOW AND WHERE TO PLAY THE LEVEL GREEN GAME

THE ART OF BOWLS: PRACTICAL HINTS ON HOW AND WHERE TO PLAY THE LEVEL GREEN GAME

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Standard work on the game of bowls, with chapters on equipment, beginning of play, kinds of shot, team games, matches and championships, tournaments, indoor bowls, the women's game.

First Edition - published as part of "The Sports and Pastimes Library". 8vo. 224pp. Frontispiece, 7 plates. Original dust-wrapper, with owner's name and stamp to front and rubbed to edges with some small areas of loss. Owner's name and stamp also inside. A good copy with a rare dust-wrapper.

Date
1932
Publisher
Witherby
Author
Felix HOTCHKISS

£25.00 (Code: 68965)

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