James Boswell Books

The Life Of Tom Morris, With Glimpses Of St Andrews & Its Golfing Celebrities. One of the most collectable golf books on one of golf's most influential figures 'Old Tom'. An original 1908 first edition copy, one for the true connoisseur. This is a hard bound copy with black letter title "The Life of TOM MORRIS, With Glimpses of St Andrews & Its Golfing Celebrities, W.W. Tulloch, Member of the Royal & Ancient Club of St Andrews'. The original green pictorial cloth cover with a scene showing Old Tom Morris and another golfer playing on the links of St Andrews. Gilt title to spine with illustration of crossed clubs and ball, publisher's icon and illustration of crossed clubs and balls on rear cover. The book with all twenty-seven illustrations (Mr George Glennie, page 96 loose as is page 194, monument to 'Young Tom') including frontispiece with tissue guard, 'Tom Driving Off - Fore'. As far as we can ascertain all 334 pages are there, slight foxing to edges, in a few cases creeping onto the pages. Colston & Co. Limited, printers, Edinburgh. One of the true classics of golf literature, Reverend Tulloch wrote this to be presented for Tom Morris's 87th birthday. "To Tom Morris. Dear Old Tom, Will you accept for your eighty-seventh birthday this account of your long and honourable life, and of the many great matches in which you have taken part and been interested? I trust it may recall to you many happy days and many memorable triumphs in the game with which your name and that of your distinguished son will always be associated. It will also, I hope, help to preserve to new generations of golfers the charm of your personality and the memory of the "brave days of old." With all good wishes, Ever yours...

Christie's London; The Badminton Cabinet, The Property of Mrs. Barbara Piasecka Johnson. London: Christie's, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket. 95 pp....

A spectacular visual biography of one of the most celebrated architects and cultural icons of the twentieth century With his elegant suits and trademark round black glasses, Phili...

London: W. Strahan and T. Cadwell, 1775. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE 8vo, 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 (212 x 132 mm); Title, 284 pp, 1 leaf (errata with 11 items on 12 lines). Printed on laid pap...

AUTHOR: CAMDEN, William. TITLE: The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland. PUBLISHER: London: by John Haviland, and are to be sold by William Sheares, 1...

Presented is "Colton's New Map of the State of Texas Compiled from De Cordova's Large Map", published in Alivin J. Johnson’s “New Illustrated Family Atlas.” The map was published in ...

AUTHOR: BOSWELL, James. TITLE: The Life Of Samuel Johnson. PUBLISHER: London: John Murray, 1835. DESCRIPTION: EXTRA ILLUSTRATED. 10 vols., 6-1...

Provence: The Beautiful Cookbook: Authentic Recipes from the Regions of Provence Hardcover – September 24, 1993. by Richard Olney (Author), Michael Freeman (Author), Peter Johnson (P...

Sotheby's: Property from the Estate of Samuel P. Reed, April 2007. Softcover auction catalog of 92 pages with 230 lots of furniture, paintings and works of art. NPT Books a division ...

Presenting a very rare eleventh edition hardback illustrated copy of The Life of Francis Marion W. Gilmore Simms. J.C. Derby 119 Nassau Street, New York...

1 Volume. (Anon) The Greatest Plague of Life or The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant. Bound by Kelliegram in full wine morocco with multi-colored inlay on the covers....

2 Volumes. Samuel Rogers, The Writings. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full navy calf with the covers displaying a double border with floral corner flourishes, both gilt-tooled. The spines d...