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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 Publisher: Argus Printing & Publishing Date: 1918 Description: 48 pp. Illustrated with ads. 8½x5½, original tan printed wrappers. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by R.G. Fall on the title page with his first two initials "F.G." dated June 1958. 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. Rubberstamp from the Schulenburg Golf Library. Lot Amendments Condition: Light foxing and nicks; still near fine and quite scarce. Item number: 163234