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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Flagstick Books Edition ; 237 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm ; ISBN: 0940889366; 9780940889361 ; green cloth with gold lettering ; Originally published in New York : Windward House, 1934.; no dustjacket ; ISBN: 0940889366; 9780940889361 ; LC: PS3537.H386 ; OCLC: 44400609 ; set in the small town of Elie in Fife, Scotland, ten miles from St. Andrews and near North Berwick, Muirfield and Gullane. ELie was home to many champion golfers including the great James Braid. Despite its past fame, Elie today is a secret known only to Scots. The author joseph Shaw was a captain in the Army during World War I with the Hoover Mission. Back in the US, he became the editor of a pulp fiction serials, Black Mask, which under his leadership became the leading detective magazine in the US, specializing in the "hard-boiled detective story". His fictional story, "Out of the Rough", however, is a golf-inspired romance. The testing of the golf student Robert Hale, and his acquiring of new techniques and the excitement of the story's conclusion will prove irresistible to golfers.--condensed from the foreword ; slight mark on textblock ; slight knock, else VG. Book.