Valuable Book Group produces a monthly newsletter covering the rare and antiquarian golf book market. In particular, we provide book reviews for golf books that in some instances are 100 years old. Our philosophy is that a book doesn't have to be new to be interesting or insightful.
We provide these newsletters because we love the history of the game and we enjoy sharing our knowledge. We also do it because buying and collecting golf books has gotten fairly complex. With all the limited editions, signed copies, and special editions issued it is hard to keep track of.
We find that reviewing books provides useful information for the serious collector. Click on the topics below to access the PDF file with the full newsletter. Contact us if you would like to be added to our mailing list for distribution of the newsletter or to receive a catalog.
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Newsletters and golf book reviews - click on title to access:
Feb 2012 Our Favorite Golf Books
Jan 2012 Golf Books with Pictorial Covers
Dec 2011 Golf Book Gift Ideas
Nov 2011 Discovering Donald Ross
Oct 2011 James Braid Golf Books
Sep 2011 The Spirit of St. Andrews by Dr. Alister MacKenzie
Aug 2011 The Making of the Masters
Jul 2011 Sign Here Please - Signed Golf Books
Jun 2011 The Country Club (Brookline) Award Winning History
May 2011 Glotta : Quite a Pricey Little Poem
Apr 2011 Golf Clubs as Bird Sanctuaries - Bobby Jones
Mar 2011 Toy Town Golf Club
Feb 2011 Chicago Golf Club
Jan 2011 Golf Links of Scotland
Dec 2010 Scotland's Gift by C.B. Macdonald
Nov 2010 Garden G. Smith Golf Books
Oct 2010 Grantland Rice and Golf
Sep 2010 St. Andrews Complete List
Aug 2010 Barnbougle Dunes Golf Club History
Jul 2010 George Thomas Jr. Golf Books
Jun 2010 F.G. Tait Golfing Diaries
May 2010 A Golfer's Gallery of Masters Bernard Darwin
Apr 2010 Japanese Golf Books
Mar 2010 Royal & Ancient Golf Club Histories
Feb 2010 Somerset Hills Golf Club History
Jan 2010 H.S. Colt Golf Books
Dec 2009 Cypress Point Golf Club History
Nov 2009 The Life and Work of Dr. Alister MacKenzie
Oct 2009 The Royal Blackheath Golf Club
Sep 2009 The Greatest Selling Golf Books of All Time
Aug 2009 Golf books by Bernard Darwin
Jul 2009 You've Got Balls!
Jun 2009 The Piping Rock Club
May 2009 A.W. Tillinghast Golf Books
Apr 2009 Golf Holes They Talk About
Mar 2009 The Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society
Feb 2009 Seminole Golf Club History
Jan 2009 Your First Game of Golf by Hillinthorn
Dec 2008 The A.B.C. of Golf by A Victim
Nov 2008 Scotsman's Dream by Butch Berry
Oct 2008 The European Club History - Pat Ruddy
Sep 2008 The World's Champion Golfers
Aug 2008 Tom Morris of St. Andrews - Ltd. Edition
Jul 2008 The Bar X Golf Course by Ross Santee
Jun 2008 Does Size Matter? - Small Golf Books
May 2008 Golf Goes to the Movies
Apr 2008 Golf Reference Books
Mar 2008 Child's Play? -for Children
Feb 2008 Fifty Years of American Golf by Martin
Jan 2008 Additional Golf Flicker Books
Dec 2007 Golf books with unusual covers
Nov 2007 U.S. Golf Books published prior to 1900
Oct 2007 The Golfer's Alphabet Van Tassel Sutphen
Sep 2007 George Plimpton - The Bogey Man
Aug 2007 Alister Mackenzie
Jul 2007 Golf Writings by John Updike
Jun 2007 Our Favorite Golf Books
May 2007 Golf books by John Henry (J.H.) Taylor
Apr 2007 Bobby Jones Golf Books
Mar 2007 Jerome Travers and Walter Travis
Feb 2007 Willie Park, Jr Golf Books
Jan 2007 Golf Books by Herbert Warren Wind
Dec 2006 Golf Books by Henry Longhurst
Nov 2006 Walter Hagen Golf Books
Oct 2006 The Country Club at Brookline Golf Books
Sep 2006 Early Golf Books issued with Dust Jackets
Aug 2006 Golf Books by Agatha Christie
P.G. Wodehouse on Golf
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
Jul 2006 Royal Liverpool Golf Club - Hoylake Books
Jun 2006 Shinnecock, National and Maidstone
Club Histories - Long Island - Other
May 2006 Golf Mystery Books by Herbert Adams
Apr 2006 Golf Flicker Books - Bobby Jones & Others
Mar 2006 Sunningdale Golf Club Books
Feb 2006 Pine Valley Golf Club Books
Jan 2006 Golf in America by James Lee
Dec 2005 Fairways and Railways - Early golf books published by railroads
Golf: A Tribute (Europe)
Nov 2005 The Badminton Library Golf by Horace Hutchinson
Oct 2005 The Confidential Guide to Golf by Tom Doak