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Robert "Cliff" Stanfield

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Horace Hutchinson's "Famous Golf Links"
« on: November 06, 2003, 02:22:53 PM »
Has anybody seen this book?  Is it in reprint?
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RSLivingston_III

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Re:Horace Hutchinson's "Famous Golf Links"
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2003, 02:29:45 PM »
Mike Beckeridge at Classics of Golf might be interested in running it. Talked with him earlier this week and he was looking for more books to add to the library.
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Tommy_Naccarato

Re:Horace Hutchinson's "Famous Golf Links"
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2003, 02:30:21 PM »
Echo Redanman's comments. It's sister book which is almost an exact reprint--British Golf Links is phenominal, and I have been clamoring for years for a reprint. The pictures are what make the book. My how the game has changed.
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Dan Herrmann

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Re:Horace Hutchinson's "Famous Golf Links"
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2003, 02:51:02 PM »
I have a 1911 copy of Hutchinson's Badminton Library - Golf in great shape.  The descriptions of the courses are amazing.  

It's funny to see only a few North American courses mentioned - Royal Montreal for one...

My pro, Eric Peveto is enjoying it right now.

Someday I should scan/post some interesting pages..
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Brad Tufts

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Re:Horace Hutchinson's "Famous Golf Links"
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2003, 06:03:25 PM »
How about Colt & Co.?

Haven't seen that one around for less than $500.

That may be a good candidate for reprint.
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TEPaul

Re:Horace Hutchinson's "Famous Golf Links"
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2003, 07:06:20 AM »
$500?!? I don't care how good the book is--I'll wait for a reprint! I'm a Quaker man! For $500 I can buy about 10 different really good reprint books! If I want to get my hands on one of those rare, signed, numbered originals all I have to do is go over to Gil Hanse's house about 2 miles away. Gil is one of those guys who collects all that rare original stuff because he's very interested in having it and he's also one of these really good, successful and extremely rich young retro/renaissance architects!!  ;)
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Paul_Turner

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Re:Horace Hutchinson's "Famous Golf Links"
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2003, 10:10:58 AM »
"Colt and Co" $500, surely not?  I paid $75 a couple of years ago.  But it's now worth about 50c having visited the bottom of my bath tub.
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TEPaul

Re:Horace Hutchinson's "Famous Golf Links"
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2003, 01:17:27 PM »
"But it's now worth about 50c having visited the bottom of my bath tub."

Paul, you, you, you....idjut!! And the bathtub probably had water in it too when you were taking a bath, right? You English--you're incorrigable. Don't bother answering whether the tub had water in it when you were bathing--I know you're probably not quite that eccentric yet. But henceforth, since you're apparently so prone to "dropsy" take your baths without water or do as we do over here and take showers. If you take Colt's book into the shower with you I don't know what to say!!
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Paul_Turner

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Re:Horace Hutchinson's "Famous Golf Links"
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2003, 04:49:28 PM »
Tom

You yanks have no idea when it comes to baths.  They're much too puny and shallow over here. Nothing like stewing in your own muck.
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TEPaul

Re:Horace Hutchinson's "Famous Golf Links"
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2003, 04:56:16 PM »
Stewing in your own mucK?? Goodness! Do the English have some kind of recipe for that?
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George Pazin

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Re:Horace Hutchinson's "Famous Golf Links"
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2003, 04:58:00 PM »
Paul -

You never know - with some of the weird things that go on out there, you might have actually increased the book's value. :)

I glanced through Colt & Co. a couple years ago at a golf expo and it looked more historical than architectural. Did I miss something?
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