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Title: Scotland's Gift: Golf - with rare publisher's two-part box Author: Macdonald, Charles Blair Place: New York Publisher: Scribner's Date: 1928 Description: xii, [2], 340 pp. Illustrated with numerous full-page and half-page photo lithographs from various old sources; 6 tipped-in color plates (as issued), including a color frontispiece by Henry C. Frick, plus a folding color map of the National Golf Links of America at rear. 10x7½, original half vellum and gilt-stamped red boards, gilt-lettered black morocco spine label, top edge gilt, original glassine dust jacket, red boards two-part box with paper label on box top. No. 240 of 260 copies, of which 10 were originally not for sale. Signed by Charles B. Macdonald on the limitation page. First Edition. Signed by Charles B. Macdonald on the limitation page. With a never before encountered contemporaneous two-part box made of red board, with off white paper label on top with title, author and publisher information, plus the No. 240 lettered in hand. Donovan & Jerris makes no mention of the box, and no other copies of the book has been sold in a box like this one. The author was a pioneer of golf in America, and he laid out the courses at the Chicago Golf Club, the National on Long Island, and Mid-Ocean at Bermuda. This edition contains 6 color plates, 3 more than the first trade edition. D&M 24760; D&J M1690. Lot Amendments Condition: Box lightly sunned, a few corners splitting, one side section of box top is detached, but present in full except for approximately 1" that is lacking, worthy of restoration; jacket lightly chipped and torn with 1" lacking at spine head, closed tear along front flap fold; volume spine a touch yellowed; remnant of removed bookplate remaining on front free endpaper; near fine volume in very good jacket and box. Item number: 227275