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GOLFIKA
FRENCH BOOKS (until 1920)
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This list is certainly not complete. We hope to add information with the help of our readers. If you know any golf book which should be listed here, please send us an e-mail.
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| | Ranking was redone in July 2000. From now, only intermediate numbers could be added.
See at bottom page for conventions.
| | We choose to list the books by date in opposition the the usual rule recommending to sort
by author's name. To find an author, we suggest here to use the search engine available on the
home page.
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| | KF1000 - F.-W. Mariassy. - Le golf en Angleterre ; les golf-clubs de France.
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| | More a pamphlet than a book. Everybody agrees that the first edition was french, but
the date is questionnable. May be 1891 or 1894. In 1895, a second illustrated edition is published
by Robaudy, in Cannes (see below).
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| | Harry B. Wook (and also Smith et Hilton, 1912 then later Joseph S.F. Murdoch, 1968) refers
to an edition by M. C. Pille (Cannes) in 1894 and - more curiously - to a second enlarged edition
(90pp) in Londres, "Golf Office" (sold at 1/6).
It's curious to notice that all those authors seem to make the same mistake when writing "M" for
Mariassy's first name, rather than "F. W.". Does this mean that the initial error was made by Wood
and then propagated ?
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| | KF1100 - P. Moreau & G. Voulquin. - Les sports modernes illustrés.
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| 1905
| 165-170/370pp
| Larousse
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| | Sport in general. Six pages on golf with illustrations (photographic). Golf rules. Golf chapter by Charles Gondouin (from Racing Club de France).
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| | KF1150 - Henry Claremont (dir.) - Le livre des Sports Athlétiques et des jeux de plein air.
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| 1909
| 91-110/388pp
| Pierre Roger & Cie, Paris
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| | Sport in general (cricket, football ...) Good part on golf, signed M.S. - with 12 illustrations (drawings). Golf rules (extracts, 1909).
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| | KF1200 - Arnaud Massy. - Le golf.
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| 1911
| 351pp
| Pierre Lafitte
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| | First major golf book, translated into english (different editions : Methuen, 1914, Brentano's 1920). The french edition exist in three different condition (soft cover, hard cover and moleskine, guilded). It is more illustrated and records a list of early golf courses.
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| | KF1300 - Paul Champ, De Bellet & al. - Tennis, Polo, Golf & Croquet.
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| 1911
| 19-48/78pp
| Bib. Larousse
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| | Chapter on golf signed de Bellet, french champion. One of the nine illustrations show Mr Balfour in the rough. A significant part dedicated to the rules.
Different editions known.
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| | KF1400 - Pierre Deschamps. - Le golf 1900 - 1910. Enquête sur le mouvement des sports en France pendant les dix premières années du siècle.
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| | A rare booklet of topmost interest on early golf in France. Written by the founder of Paris Golf Club and of the "Union des Golfs de France", forerunner of the French Golf Federation.
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| | KF1500 - Raymond Baert. - Dupont champion de golf.
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| | Humor. One drawing by page. An english edition published by Lawrence & Jellicoe, Londres.
Two recents reprints : one by Alain Boquet and a second by Michael Flannery.
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| | KF1550 - Philippe Casimir. - La Turbie et son trophée romain - Le golf du Mont Agel.
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| 1914
| 31-38/108
| Journal de la Corniche, Nice.
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| | A touristic guide featuring the Monte-Carlo golf-club.
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| | KF1570 - Ern. Weber. - Sports Divers.
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| c.1914
| 37-66/128pp
| ed. Nilsson, Bibliothèque sportive pour tous.
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| | Various sports including golf ; golf player on cover.
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| | KF1600 - Harry Vardon. - Comment jouer au golf.
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| c.1920
| 204pp
| Lib. Delagrave
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| | Translated from english. With a listing of members of the main french golf clubs.
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| | KF1700 - A. Curely & R. Perrier. - Le golf.
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| | Small introductory booklet.
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| 351pp | Total number of pages.
| | 165-170/370pp | from 165 to 170 dedicated to golf (total is 370pp).
| | (42pp) | Total number of pages, unpaginated.
| | var. | various.
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