Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf.

PENICK, Harvey with Bud Shrake [Bernhard Langer].

$1,500.00

Item Number: 147082

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

First edition, early printing of the best-selling golf book ever published. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Dr. Don Brown: I hope that this book will help you to enjoy life, and also this great game of golf to it’s fullest. I hope you enjoy helping your patient as I did my pupils. I am sure you did! Sincerely Harvey Penick.” Additionally signed by two time Master champion Bernhard Langer on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Parr. Introductions by Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw, Betsy Rawls, Mickey Wright, Kathy Whitworth, Mary Lena Faulk, Dave Marr and Byron Nelson. A unique example.

The legendary Harvey Penick, whom Sports Illustrated called the “Socrates of the golf world,” began his golfing career as a caddie in Austin, Texas, at the age of eight, and over the course of nearly a century worked with an amazing array of champions. In this classic book, which is named for the red notebook he always kept, Penick’s simple, direct, practical wisdom pares away the hypertechnical jargon that’s grown up around the golf swing, and lets all golfers, whatever their level, play their best.