Hints On Play With Steel Shafts Cotton, Henry

Illustrated. 40 pages. A staple-bound how-to manual, written at the pivotal time when players were transitioning from hickory shafts to steel shafts. Cotton was well-equipped to write this book being an early proponent of steel although having learned the game with hickory. Bound in blue-green wraps, with blue titling, with 28 illustrations, mainly B/W photographs. Several pages of adverts including double-page colored centerfold of seven clubs made by British Steel Golf Shafts. Three pages of advertisements for True Temper Steel Golf Shafts at rear, and one page advertisement for Apollo Steel Shafts (also made by British Steel Golf Shafts Ltd.) Henry Cotton writes," I discovered that they (Steel Shafts) possessed many virtues which hickory shafts has never possessed". Slight foxing and soiling to covers, contents clean and unmarked. Covers protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall