Title: The Golf Song Book Author: Kerr, John and J. Kenyon Lees Place: Edinburgh Publisher: J. Kenyon Lees, Music Publisher Date: [1903] Description: [4], 84 pp. Edited by Rev. John Kerr. Music by J. Kenyon Lees. (4to) 27x18.5 cm (10¾x7¼"), rebound in green morocco and boards. First (and only) Edition. Classic golf songs set to music, including: A Lay of the Links with words by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; A Sequel to the Breezy Links O' Troon by Thomas S. Aitchison, author of Reminiscences of the Old Bruntsfield Links Golf Club, 1866-1874 (1902); three by John Thomson, author of Golfing and other Poems and Songs (1893), and one by John Kerr. In his foreword, Kerr writes: "...no wonder that the songs of golf are legion. The drawback is that these songs are not generally set to music... It is to help on this good cause, to enable golfers to enjoy the praise of Golf and to fight their battles o'er again, to forget their defeats and rejoice in their victories, that this Collection has been made, in the hope that it may at least form the nucleus of a collection, the absence of which seemed to be a reproach to the golfing community." D&J K5080; D&M 23190; Green & Gibson "A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle" A23x. Lot Amendments Condition: Foxing; near fine. Item number: 257780
Title: The Golf Song Book Author: Kerr, John and J. Kenyon Lees Place: Edinburgh Publisher: J. Kenyon Lees, Music Publisher Date: [1903] Description: [4], 84 pp. Edited by Rev. John Kerr. Music by J. Kenyon Lees. (4to) 27x18.5 cm (10¾x7¼"), rebound in green morocco and boards. First (and only) Edition. Classic golf songs set to music, including: A Lay of the Links with words by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; A Sequel to the Breezy Links O' Troon by Thomas S. Aitchison, author of Reminiscences of the Old Bruntsfield Links Golf Club, 1866-1874 (1902); three by John Thomson, author of Golfing and other Poems and Songs (1893), and one by John Kerr. In his foreword, Kerr writes: "...no wonder that the songs of golf are legion. The drawback is that these songs are not generally set to music... It is to help on this good cause, to enable golfers to enjoy the praise of Golf and to fight their battles o'er again, to forget their defeats and rejoice in their victories, that this Collection has been made, in the hope that it may at least form the nucleus of a collection, the absence of which seemed to be a reproach to the golfing community." D&J K5080; D&M 23190; Green & Gibson "A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle" A23x. Lot Amendments Condition: Foxing; near fine. Item number: 257780
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