Sutphen (William G. Van Tassel) The Golficide, And Other Tales of the Fair Green, A FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF AMERICAN GOLF FICTION, 8vo., pu
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Sutphen (William G. Van Tassel) The Golficide, And Other Tales of the Fair Green, A FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF AMERICAN GOLF FICTION, 8vo., published in London and New York, 1898, 6 half tone plates, original pictorial green cloth (nick in head of spine, light rubbing to joints), Robertson and Mullems Booksellers label; sold together with another title by the same author, The Nineteenth Hole: Being Tales of the Fair Green, A FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND SERIES OF STORIES by America's pioneer writer on golf, published by Harper in London & New York, 1901, 8vo., coloured photogravure portrait of the author, 8 half tone plates after A.B. Frost, original half cloth (2)