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				Now Available North American Club Makers By Pete Georgiady f you liked the Compendium of British Club Makers you will love North American Club Makers. This book is dedicated to the earlier club making pioneers in North America. North American Club Makers attempts to survey one under explored facet of golf, its club makers and club professionals in America, from the birth of modern golf in the Western Hemisphere to the sunset of the age of hickory. Much of the earliest history has been lost or obscured. The first professionals, like Willie Anderson, who Willie Smith called "the King" of their decade of golf, are little more than names in legend. Ninety-nine percent of American golf enthusiasts do not know that he was our first three-time champion. What gives this book purpose is that it looks behind the names and examines how they, along with Spalding, MacGregor, Wilson and other companies, developed the golf equipment industry. Price: $50 Order Now

				Wood Shafted Golf Club Value Guide for 1998 By Pete Georgiady The Wood Shafted Golf Club Value Guide is often quoted as the industry reference guide for wood shafted golf clubs. As a reference guide this book is ideal for beginner collectors and will help them be able to identify clubs as being worth $50, $250, or $2,000. The dozens of close up photographs are also great reference for experience collectors. Each addition of this book is a must have for collectors as it acts as a quick reference guide and is a way to help track the relative trends in pricing of various collectable clubs. The 1998 Wood Shafted Golf Club Value Guide has 320 pages with 309 illustrations and prices for over 5,000 clubs. Price: $25 Order Now Limited Offer - Airlie Hall Press is offering the remaining limited quantity of the 1996 price guides at a discounted price. Price: $12.50

				Compendium of British Club Makers by Pete Georgiady After being sold out for over a year the 2nd edition is now available! This book is ideal for the collector of British clubs that would like to learn more about the men behind the names and cleek marks stamped on their club heads and shafts. The Compendium of British Club Makers has the names, cities, and dates of of thousands of British club makers, as wells an in depth write ups on the most prestigious club makers. For those of you who have one of Pete Georgiady's price guides and have notices all of those asterisks next to some of the club makers, they are used to mark club makers names who are featured in this book. Price: $55 Order Now

				Views and Reviews: Golf Clubs in the Trade Press by Pete Georgiady Views and Reviews is the newest book from Pete and is out of the ordinary compared to other books on antique golf clubs. The title refers to the Views, the illustration of clubs, and Reviews which describe them to readers of golf magazines between 1891 and 1928, and to collectors now. Generations ago, reviews in magazines were much more important than today since there were no slick, full color magazines or television adverts to bring equipment messages to golfers. There are 80 Views and Reviews of some of the revolutionary and not so revolutionary clubs of the past. A great unique golf book that is great as a gift to the golfing enthusiast. Price: Trade edition (paperback) $25. Deluxe Collectors' limited edition (hardback, signed and numbered) $55. On International orders add $5.00/book. Order Now

				Collecting Antique Golf Clubs by Pete Georgiady New collectors develop dozens of questions surrounding the definitions of certain terms they hear or read and there is currently no single source they can consult for answers, until now. This book is intended to be a quick reference guide to go to when the collector comes across an unknown word, phrase, or is looking to classify a club. There are dozens of close up photographs to help the reader understand concepts or specific club examples. This is the book to get to grasp an overall understanding of collecting wood shafted clubs. Price: $40 Order Now