Signed book: Down the Fairway. Limited signed first edition of 300 copies (this copy No. 217). NY: Minton, Balch & Company, 1927. Quarter-vellum hardcover with library cloth, 7 x 9.75, 239 pages. Signed on the limitation page “Robt. T. Jones, Jr.” and [coauthor] “O. B. Keeler,” and signed a second time “Robt. T. Jones, Jr.” on the striking full-page gravure frontis photo, which features a smiling Jones about to tee off. Housed in a handsome custom half-leather and marbled clamshell box. Light soiling to spine and toning to covers (faint stain to back cover), a very subtle hint of toning to interior, and tiny edge tear to signed page, otherwise fine, clean condition. A superlative copy of this cornerstone of golf literature! Auction LOA Steve Grad/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
