How I Played the Game.

NELSON, Byron; Arnold Palmer.

$200.00

Item Number: 146679

Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1993.

First edition, second printing of Nelson’s autobiography. Octavo, original forest green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with photographic plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “To Will Best wishes Byron Nelson 7-16-93.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Arnold Palmer.

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).