Matthew, Sidney L.; Jones IV, Robert Tyre (Foreword)

Life and Times of Bobby Jones [SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY]

Chelsea, Michigan: Sleeping Bear Press, 1995.

First Trade Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition, first printing with full number line to copyright page. Inscribed at title page to Georgia Tech quarterback D. Kimbrough ("Kim") King by author Sidney L. Matthew, foreword writer Robert T. Jones IV (signed additionally at foreword), and by Charlie Yates, photographed with Bobby Jones on page 107 (with additional signature there). 12 1/4" X 9 1/2". vii, 296pp. Moderate wear to dust jacket, with rubbing and bumping to extremities, curling to top edges, and scratching and small indents to rear panel. Bound in blue cloth over boards, with illustration of Bobby Jones with golfclub stamped in gilt ot upper board. Moderate wear to binding, with lean to spine, small tear to bottom edge of upper board, dust soiling, and bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An admittedly worn but still quite presentable signed first edition with interesting sport-related provenance.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Few gentleman have ever enjoyed a sporting and personal life as that of Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones, Jr. By the time Bob Jones was 28 years young, he had already travelled over 120,000 miles and found himself on the pinnacle of all golf achievements--the Grand Slam. Whereas this timeless accomplishment would, for the ordinary man, constitute the laurel seat upon which he would rest for the remainder of his life, for Bob, it merely serves as the springboard which launched a myriad of other extraordinary achievements and experiences. Jones himself remarked that he could take out of his life all of his experiences except those at St. Andrews and still have a rich and full life. This book provides a glimpse not only into those St. Andrews events, but also the exploits which brightly shined forth in his life as if from a brilliantly cut diamond. The opportunity to see the portrait of a gentleman whose character was observed by his contemporaries to be comprised in equal proportions of "courtesy, consideration, humanity, and humor" has been preserved and chronicled by the most distinguished sportswriters of this century. (Publisher). Good / good. Item #11667
ISBN: 1886947023

Price: $60.00