* Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and On the Great Plains by Theodore Roosevelt
Signed limited first edition, number 853 of 1000 large-paper copies signed by Roosevelt beneath the frontispiece portrait, with 55 illustrations by Remington, Frost, Beard, Sanford and others, including four etchings by R. Swain Gifford and numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. This copy very handsomely bound by the publisher in full morocco with pictorial morocco onlays, including the cover emblem of a stag after an original design by Roosevelt.
* The Conquest of Everest by Sir John Hunt
First American edition of the official account of the first summit of Mount Everest, signed on the front free endpaper by Edmund Hillary and expedition members George Lowe and Charles Evans, and with a commemorative postcard signed by Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay and author John Hunt laid in. With eight color photographic plates, 48 half-tone plates and a number of in-text illustrations after pen-and-ink sketches.
* Golf in America by James P. Lee
First edition of the first book to be published in the United States on golf, illustrated with 14 photographic plates (one a map of a golf course).
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Fifty Years of American Golf by Harry Brownlaw Martin
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The Tumult and the Shouting by Grantland Rice
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* The Tumult and the Shouting by Grantland Rice
Signed by 19 sports figures and celebrities, including Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Jackie Gleason, Johnny Weissmuller, Ed Sullivan, and Gene Sarazan
* Fifty Years of American Golf by Harry Brownlaw Martin
Signed limited first edition, number 83 of only 355 copies, inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication: "To my friend W. Wallace Lyon, who has been a keen enthusiast of the game, Best wishes from the author, H.B. Martin, Oct '36."
