First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles to the front cover. Octavo. [viii] 47pp. with many full page plates of illustrations from photographs. Spine faded and some rubbing to the back cover. Sound binding. This copy bears the ownership signature and address of Violet M. Pinckney, an Olympic tennis player, German Open winner and twelve time competitor at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. D&M 28670. Murdoch 589. Published late in Park's career, The Art of Putting represents one of the earliest book-length studies devoted exclusively to golf's short game. Park argues that putting is the decisive factor in competitive golf, opening the work with the memorable assertion: "The man who can putt is a match for anyone."