How I Played the Game.

NELSON, Byron; Arnold Palmer.

$200.00

Item Number: 146678

Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1993.

First special 1993 Sponsor edition of Nelson’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s full forest green leatherette with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with frontispiece and photographic plates. One of one thousand one hundred copies signed by Byron Nelson on the semi-transparent flyleaf, this is number 58. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. Accompanied by the original gilt engraved GTE Byron Nelson Classic metal clip bookmark.

Laced throughout with priceless stories, opinions and even golf tips, with an in-depth recreation of his golden year, 1945, How I Played the Game is a sample of golf writing and remembrance of the highest order. "A careful chronology that will serve as one of the most detailed and anecdotal accounts of a seminal era in American golf" (The New York Times).