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MACKERN, LOUIE AND M. BOYS (EDITORS). WITH CHAPTERS BY ISSETTE PEARSON, A. BENNET PASCOE AND OTHRES. Our Lady of the Green. A Book of Ladies Golf.
London:, Lawrence and Bullen,, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good++ Hardback True First Edition, First Printing in the Original Green Cloth Binding with Red and White Lettering and a Colored Vignette of a Woman Golfer on the Cover. Foxing Endpapers, Mild Edge Wear, Soil to the Covers and Spine. In Exemplary Condition for a 109 Year Old Golf Tome. 8vo. X, 223 Pps. Donovan-Jerris Indicate That the American Edition Was Bound from the Uk Sheets with 'J.B. Lippincott' on the Spine. Very Good++, Donovan-Murdoch 3500. Donovan-Jerris M3250. Donovan-Jerris note "Mrs. Louis Mackern and Mrs. Mollie Boys were accomplished players from Blackheath. Both were well known to the golfing literary public, for both regularly submitted articles to leading periodicals and both had written chapters in volumes edited and/or written by men. Of particular note is chapter X, which evaluates golf as a professional career for women (including notes about female professionals and groundskeepers)".
Offered for US$ 1500.00 by: By The Book, LC - Book number: 30557