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Title: History of Golf at the Cape, in which is also treated ''The Origin of the Game of Golf,'' Golf Stories and a Register of S.A. Clubs Author: Fall, R[obert] G[eoffrey] Place: Cape Town, South Africa Publisher: Argus Printing & Publishing Date: 1918 Description: 48 pp. Illustrated with ads. 8¼x5½, original tan printed wrappers. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page: "With the compiler's compliments. July '52, to L.A. Sanderson from R.G.F." Includes a printed leaf "An Appeal to Club Secretaries and Other" by R.G. Fall, laid in. Fall founded the magazine South African Golf in 1926, which he continued to edit through his mid-eighties. The book is an invaluable history of the game in South Africa; without it the facts and statistics listed within would surely be lost today - Murdoch 239; Donovan & Murdoch 16280. Lot Amendments Condition: Light edge wear, occasional foxing; minor stains to bottom page margins, a bit darkened; very good. Item number: 170889