Monthly Newsletters
Valuable Book Group produces a monthly newsletter covering the collectible, rare, and antiquarian golf book market. In particular, we provide book reviews for golf books that we believe are worthy of investment and will have lasting value. Many are newly issued books although in some instances they are 100 years old. Our philosophy is that a book doesn’t have to be new to be interesting or insightful.
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.
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Sep 2024 Diamond in the Rough : The Story of Cobbs Creek
Jun 2024 The Prairie Raynor - Chicago Golf Club History
May 2024 Scotland’s Golf in Days of Steam
Apr 2024 A Golf Odyssey with the Real McCoy
Mar 2024 Artificial Intelligence and Golf Books
Feb 2024 Who Knew? and What's New?
Jan 2024 Independent Publishers and Self-Published Golf Books
Dec 2023 The Creek Club Histories
Sep 2022 Sleepy Hollow Country Club
Aug 2022 Seve: The People's Champion
Jun 2022 The Golfer's Guide to the Game and Greens of Scotland
Apr 2022 The Mackenzie Reader : Writings on Golf Architecture and More by Dr. Alister Mackenzie
Feb 2022 The Divine Fury of James Braid Trilogy
Jan 2022 Harold Hilton
Dec 2021 Castle to Clubhouse: Loch Lomond Golf Club
Nov 2021 The Eisenhower Trophy 1960 - Merion Golf Club
Oct 2021 The Biarritz Golf Club and the Biarritz Prototype Hole
Sep 2021 Golf and Kolf
Aug 2021 Golfing Societies
Jul 2021 The Making of Pacific Dunes
Jun 2021 Summer Reading
May 2021 Golf Course Architect Herbert Fowler
Apr 2021 St. George's Hill Golf Club
Mar 2021 Golf Course and Grounds of Yeamans Hall
Feb 2021 Burning Tree Club
Jan 2021 Golf Books by and about Caddies
Dec 2020 "Stancliffe" Golf Books with beautiful covers
Nov 2020 Royal Portrush Golf Club
Oct 2020 Myopia Hunt Club
Sep 2020 One for the Memory Banks
Aug 2020 On Course - A Dictionary Used by Golf Course Architects
Jul 2020 Getting to 18 by Tom Doak
Jun 2020 Pine Valley Musings by Ernie Ransome III
May 2020 Something Old ... Something New
Mar 2020 Carnoustie Golf Books
Feb 2020 Unusual Golf Books
Jan 2020 The Golfer's Journal
Dec 2019 Royal Melbourne Golf Club
Nov 2019 Piping Rock Golf Club
Oct 2019 Ken Reed Sketchbooks
Sep 2019 The Rubaiyat of a Golfer
Aug 2019 Machrihanish Golf Club
Jul 2019 Mountain Lake Club
Jun 2019 Ballybunion and Lahinch Golf Clubs
May 2019 The Bonnie Links of Turnberry
Apr 2019 The National Golf Links of America
Mar 2019 Golf at the Gallup
Feb 2019 F. Scott Fitzgerald and Golf
Jan 2019 Royal Worlington and Newmarket Golf Club
Dec 2018 Confidential Guide Asia, Australia and New Zealand
Nov 2018 Royal Adelaide Golf Club
Oct 2018 Clare Briggs
Sep 2018 North Berwick Golf Club
Aug 2018 Impossible Collection
Jan 2018 Stableford: A Life in Golf, Medicine and War
Dec 2017 Alex Russell
Nov 2017 The Canada Cup
Oct 2017 The Los Angeles Country Club
Sep 2017 Berckmans Place - Augusta National
Aug 2017 The Art of the Links
Jul 2017 The Mid Ocean Golf Club
Jun 2017 The Monster: Oakland Hills Golf Club
May 2017 San Francisco Golf Club
Apr 2017 Trump Golf Advice
Mar 2017 Doctors of the Game
Feb 2017 Golf's Royal Clubs
Jan 2017 Tom Simpson
Dec 2016 Confidential Guide - Summer Courses
Nov 2016 Darius Oliver's Planet Golf
Oct 2016 Fore! Life’s Book for Golfers
Sep 2016 In Love with a Wanton
Aug 2016 Golf Causerie
Jul 2016 The Golfing Annuals
Jun 2016 Newport Country Club
May 2016 St. Andrews in the Footsteps of Old Tom Morris
Apr 2016 The Anatomy of Greatness
Apr 2016 The Making of the Masters - David Owen - for Augusta Members
Mar 2016 The Original Edition of the Evangelist of Golf
Feb 2016 Royal Cortissoz
Jan 2016 Oakmont Country Club
Dec 2015 Confidential Guide to Golf - Winter
Nov 2015 Crump's Dream - Pine Valley Golf Club
Oct 2015 The Dinosaur of Golf Books
Sep 2015 Wade Hampton Golf Club
Aug 2015 Muirfield and the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers
July 2015 Golf in the Kingdom
Jun 2015 Golf & Country Clubs by Clifford Charles Wendehack
May 2015 Royal North Devon
Apr 2015 The Velvet Touch - Horton Smith
Mar 2015 The Story of Augusta National by Cliff Roberts
Feb 2015 Robert Trent Jones
Jan 2015 Tommy Armour
Dec 2014 Confidential Guide to Golf - Great Britain and Ireland
Nov 2014 The Most Influential Golf Books Ever Published
Oct 2014 Bandon Dunes
Sep 2014 A.A. Milne on Golf
Aug 2014 Inverted Jenny (Defective) Golf Books
July 2014 Cyril Tolley Golf Books
Jun 2014 The Legendary Evolution of Pinehurst
May 2014 The Bible of Golf
Apr 2014 Prolific Golf Book Authors
Mar 2014 Darsie L. Darsie
Feb 2014 Golf and the Olympics
Jan 2014 Merion Golf Club
Dec 2013 Rare Golf Books
Nov 2013 Bobby Locke
Oct 2013 John Derr
Sep 2013 Legendary Golf Clubs of the Midwest
Aug 2013 Doug Ford Golf Books
July 2013 Golf Don'ts
Jun 2013 Legendary Golf Clubhouses
May 2013 Golf Poster Book
Apr 2013 Leroy Neiman Golf Book
Mar 2013 Rex Lardner
Feb 2013 Golf Course Architecture
Jan 2013 Prestwick Golf Club
Dec 2012 The Calumet Club
Nov 2012 The Evangelist of Golf
Oct 2012 The Links Club
Sep 2012 Collecting Golf Books
Aug 2012 Joe Kirkwood
July 2012 Robert Hunter - The Links
Jun 2012 Yeamans Hall Golf Club
May 2012 From Tee to Cup
Apr 2012 Charlie Sifford
Mar 2012 Masters Golf Books
Feb 2012 Our Favorite Golf Books
Jan 2012 Pictorial Golf Books
Dec 2011 Golf Book Gift Ideas
Nov 2011 Discovering Donald Ross
Oct 2011 James Braid Golf Books
Sep 2011 The Spirit of St. Andrews
Aug 2011 The Making of the Masters
July 2011 Signed Golf Books
Jun 2011 The Country Club at Brookline
May 2011 Glotta: A Poem
Apr 2011 Golf Clubs at Bird Sanctuaries
Mar 2011 Toy Town Golf Club
Feb 2011 Chicago Golf Club
Jan 2011 Golf Links of Scotland
Dec 2010 Scotland’s Gift – C.B. Macdonald
Nov 2010 Garden Smith
Oct 2010 Grantland Rice
Sep 2010 Golf Books about St. Andrews
Aug 2010 Barnbougle Club History
July 2010 George Thomas
Jun 2010 Freddie G. Tait
May 2010 A Golfer's Gallery by Old Masters - Bernard Darwin
Apr 2010 Japanese Golf Books
Mar 2010 Royal & Ancient Golf Club History
Feb 2010 Somerset Hills Country Club
Jan 2010 H.S. Colt
Dec 2009 Cypress Point Club
Nov 2009 The Life and Work of Alister MacKenzie
Oct 2009 The Royal Blackheath Golf Club
Sep 2009 The Best Selling Golf Books
Aug 2009 Bernard Darwin
July 2009 Books about Golf Balls
Jun 2009 Piping Rock Club
May 2009 Tillinghast Golf Books
Apr 2009 Golf Holes They Talk About
Mar 2009 The Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society
Feb 2009 Seminole Golf Club
Jan 2009 Your First Game of Golf - Hillinthorn
Dec 2008 A.B.C. of Golf by a Victim
Nov 2008 Scotsman's Dream - Butch Berry
Oct 2008 The European Club
Sep 2008 Championship Golfers - George Beldam
Aug 2008 Tom Morris of St. Andrews
July 2008 The Bar X Golf Course
Jun 2008 Small Golf Books
May 2008 Golf Goes to the Movies
Apr 2008 Golf Reference Guides
Mar 2008 Children's Golf Books
Feb 2008 Fifty Years of American Golf by H.B. Martin
Jan 2008 More Golf Flicker Books
Dec 2007 Unusual covers
Nov 2007 Pre-1900 US Golf Books
Oct 2007 Sutphen – Golfer’s Alphabet
Sep 2007 George Plimpton
Aug 2007 Alister Mackenzie
July 2007 John Updike
Jun 2007 Our Favorites Golf Books
May 2007 J.H. Taylor Golf Books
Apr 2007 Bobby Jones Golf Books
Mar 2007 Jerome Travers and Walter Travis
Feb 2007 Willie Park, Jr.
Jan 2007 Herbert Warren Wind
Dec 2006 Henry Longhurst
Nov 2006 Walter Hagen
Oct 2006 The Country Club at Brookline
Sep 2006 Early Golf Books With Dust Jackets
Aug 2006 Ian Fleming Golf Books
Aug 2006 Agatha Christy Golf Books
Aug 2006 P.G. Wodehouse on Golf
July 2006 Royal Liverpool
Jun 2006 Long Island Club Histories - Part I
Jun 2006 Long Island Club Histories - Part II
May 2006 Adams - Golf Club Mystery
Apr 2006 Golf Flicker Books
Mar 2006 Sunningdale Golf Club
Feb 2006 Pine Valley Golf Club
Jan 2006 Golf in America by James Lee
Dec 2005 Golf : A Tribute - Europe
Dec 2005 Golf on the LMS and Golf on the LNER
Nov 2005 The Badminton Library - Golf