Golf in the Kingdom [First Edition]
Murphy, Michael
Sold by The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 30 November 2006
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFirst printing of the true first edition. Stated: "Copyright 1972 by Michael Murphy. First published in 1972 by The Viking Press, Inc." Green full-cloth boards, deep red impressed spine titles, moderate shelf, corner wear. Cover features gold vignette of Esalen emblem. Deckled pages very good. Small vintage name printed at endpaper: "George Morris." Light red colored top-stain, moderate wear. Bind good; hinges intact. Original pictorial wrapper in black with white cover and spine titles, moderate edge wear, little clear adhesive; unclipped 7.95, protected in fine clear sleeve. 0572 date code at front flap. Front panel features scene through ornate emerald window to course with little white ball approaching flag near hole and orb or sun in flight. This cover design with jacket painting by Andrew Rhodes features a mystical and serene landscape that reflects the themes of golf and spirituality. Scarce very good first edition in good matching wrapper. Frontispiece with the classic painting: "'Hell,' from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. Shivas Iron claimed that Bosch played an early form of golf. This painting, he said, depicts the agonies the painter saw on those early golf courses." "Golf is of all games the most mystical, the least earthbound, the one wherein the walls between us and the supernatural are rubbed thinnist. There is much wit and good will in 'Golf in the Kingdom'" - John Updike, The New Yorker. Michael Murphy tells a semi-autobiographical story of a young traveler who stumbles upon a mystical golfing expert while in Scotland. The setting for Murphy's inspiration was Bandon Dunes along the Pacific in Oregon. Murphy blends golf instruction with spiritual and philosophical insights and features fictional appearances from numerous historical thinkers of note including John Paul Sartre. "Golf in the Kingdom" is a classic must-read for both leisure and professional golfers. In addition to literary success, this title has strongly influenced many varied athletes and coaches. Phil Jackson is of one particular note among readers and is the most successful coach in NBA history. Contents: "Part I: Shivas Irons - A Footnote Regarding His Name; Golf in the Kingdom; Singing the Praises of Golf; Seamus MacDuff's Baffing Spoon; We Are All Kites in That Wind; Epilogue. Part II: The Game's Hidden but Accessible Meaning - Golf as a Journey; The Whiteness of the Ball; The Mystery of the Hole; Replacing the Divot; A Game for the Multiple Amphibian; Of a Golf Shot on the Moon; The Inner Body - A. As Experience; B. As Fact; C. As Luminous Body; Some Notes on True Gravity; Occult Backlash; A Golfer's Zodiac; Hogan and Fleck in the 1955 U. S. Open; A Harmartiology of Golf [Redemption in Golf] - How the Swing Reflects the Soul; The Rules of the Game (and how they are related to Fairy Dust); On Keeping Score (Including a thought on how Shivas Irons helped the British Empire dwindle); The Pleasures of Practice - Keeping Your Inner Eye on the Ball; Blending; Becoming One Sense Organ; The Value of Negative Thoughts (Turning the evil urge toward God); On Breakthroughs (The greatest breakthrough is taking forever); Against Our Ever Getting Better; The Game is Meant for Walkin'; Visualizing the Ball's Flight - How Images Become Irresistible Paths; Shivas Irons' History of the Western World (With some predictions regarding full flight in true gravity, the luminous body, knowledge of the cracks in space-time, and universal transparency); The Crooked Golden River; A List of People Who Knew; The Higher Self; Relativity and the Fertile Void; Universal Transparency and a Solid Place to Swing from; Humans Have Two Sides (The psychology of left and right, the myth of the fall and the need to collapse); His Ideal (The twentieth century is a koan, but that is a very good thing; from a chameleon on a tartan plaid to life in the contemplative one); Postscript: The Dance of Shiva; and, A Bibliography for the Reconstructed Golfer." Since 197.
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