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HARTLEY**, J. R: : GOLFING

LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1995

ISBN 0340654198.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated green+white line illustrated upper wrap by Patrick Benson; with colour portrait photograph of Norman Lumsden,[the Yellow Pages ad-man who turned the J.R. Hartley character into a national celebrity with advertiser/sponsor's Yellow Pages logo superimposed to one corner]; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/backstrip and top edges.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and minimally partially grubbed;fore-edges brighter and cleaner,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Publisher's clean,original dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-127pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,b/w line illus frntis by Patrick Benson - design repeated from upper wrap dw/dj - 9 chapters,b/w line illus chapter head-pieces and 6 full-page b/w line illus all by Patrick Benson,throughout the text and the book. J.R. Hartley's 'FLY FISHING',a spectacular bestseller,was a book described by one reviewer as 'one of the funniest one could ever read'.Now the author casts an eye,if not a fly,over another enthusiasm,golf. It seems he has accumulated enough skill to take his turn on several major courses throughout the British Isles,braving the curiosities of club life and applying the gleanings of experience to a cunningly competitive spirit - particularly against one old adversary.The narrative is as idiosyncratic as ever,but in it most golfers may recognise something of themselves.In the context of the most famous contest never to have taken place, J.R. as a golfer is perhaps more tortoise than hare.But we all know which wins.Now he divulges a retirement addiction to golf,an eagerness to play on courses equivalent to the sporting rivers that had been his angling habitat.There's life in the old underdog yet. J.R. Hartley is back in full swing and happily Patrick Benson,his accomplished illustrator,is there to provide the follow through. J.R. Hartley became a celebrity during the televised hunt for his elusive book on fly fishing.When the work was finally run to ground, it emerged as a number one seller. In it the author made it known that he was a doctor's son,he taught at a boy's preparatory school in Dorset,where he had a combative relationship with the bursar,was married with one daughter,and was a lifelong habitue of chalk stream and salmon river,the self-effacing hero of the fishing lodge,the underdog that usually got the last bite.See also,the two previous sequential,alpha-numerical book ID's [i.e. rja26597 + rja26607] for author's other titles/edns. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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