The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life.

PRESSFIELD, Steven [Matt Damon].

$1,250.00

Item Number: 144822

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1995.

First edition, early printing of one of the greatest golf novels of the 20th century. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “Shalom Steven Pressfield.” Additionally signed by Academy Award-winning actor Matt Damon on the half-title page. Damon starred in the 2000 film adaptation. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Grider. Jacket illustration by Jerry LoFaro.

Loosely based on the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita and set in the midst of the Great Depression, Pressfield's The Legend of Bagger Vance tells the story of a 36-hole showdown between Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, and a a troubled local war hero named R. Junuh with a mysterious mentor and caddie, Bagger Vance. The book was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Robert Redford, starring Will Smith, Matt Damon, and Charlize Theron.