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

  • SIGNED
  • New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969
By Jack Nicklaus and Herbert Warren Wind; Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. [foreword]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. 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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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]

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

Simon and Schuster: New York

Date

1969


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