Just thought you guys would be interested. I don't understand my desire to collect these things, but it is there non the less.
Publisher sets out to create Rare Golf Library
Golf publisher Skip DeWall, who built a long list of titles for Sleeping Bear Press and Ann Arbor Press, has recently joined the Ann Arbor Media Group, of Ann Arbor Mich. He is responsible for building a new brand, Sports Media Group, which will feature golf, golf architecture and turfgrass titles.
One the group's first objectives is to launch the Rare Golf Book Library under the direction of series editors Daniel Wexler and Mel Lucas, CGCS, and former president of GCSAA.
The Rare Golf Book Library will feature facsimile editions of the best vintage books from the Golden Age and before. The series will include the extremely rare classic golf books by the game's legendary authors such as Harry Vardon, Ted Ray, Bernard Darwin, Horace Hutchinson, Bobby Jones and O.B. Keeler. Walter Hagen: Portrait of a Champion will be published in conjunction with the Ryder Cup, played at Oakland Hills, where Hagen was once the golf professional.
Turf-related titles such as Turf for Golf Courses by Piper and Oakley, Book of the Links by Sutton, and Soil Management for Greenkeepers by Cubbon and Markuson are part of the new list. Lucas will be editor of the Rare Turf Book series.
In addition to standard hardcover editions, Sports Media Group will produce 25 copies of each title as a Publisher's Edition bound in high-quality leather and 200 copies of a Collector's Edition bound in high-quality cover material in a slipcase. Contact: Skip DeWall, (734) 769-1000, ext. 273, mailto:sdewall@annarbormediagroup.com.