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

PRESSFIELD, Steven.

Item Number: 120958

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1995.

First edition of one of the greatest golf novels of the 20th century. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Bus, My powers as a caddy were never as strong as “Bagger Vance’s” but I did enjoy those countless hours on the course together. Thanks for your lessons about golf and the game of life. Happy Birthday! Your good friend always Steve 11/95.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Grider. Jacket illustration by Jerry LoFaro. An exceptional association.

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.