The Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf [Inscribed and Signed by Wind to Sir Peter Allen]

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1969

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New York: Simon and Schuster, [1969]. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; 416pp.; half tone photographic frontispiece, illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket margins, top textblock edge foxed, else a Very Good copy. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "For Sir Peter Allen / with warm regards / Harold Wind / P.S. Thanks for the photographs at your wonderful Masters party." Sir Peter Allen (1905-1993) was a noted British industrialist and trained chemist who was part of the team that developed polythene (plastic). In 1969 Allen had just been named Chairman of the Imperial Chemical Industries but more importantly Allen was the author of the guide "Play the Best Courses: Great Golf in the British Isles.".

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Bibliographic details

Title
The Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf [Inscribed and Signed by Wind to Sir Peter Allen]
Author
Jack Nicklaus and Herbert Warren Wind; Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. [foreword]
Publisher
Simon and Schuster, New York
Publication year
1969
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Signed
Signed by Author(s)
Edition
1st Edition
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Biography / Memoir, Provenance / Association Copies, Signed, Sports & Games

Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

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