HAGEN, Walter. The Walter Hagen Story. “I never wanted to be a millionaire—I just wanted to live like one…” (Rare first edition)

As told to Margaret Seaton Heck. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. pp. 335. First printing, first printing. Publisher’s original two-tone cloth (red and blue) with gilt signature to upper cover, in the original pictorial dust-jacket.  A bright, well-preserved copy. Cloth clean and firm; jacket with light edge-wear and minor creasing, but presenting attractively. Internally fresh.

Walter Hagen (1892–1969), one of golf’s most charismatic and influential champions. A lively and revealing sporting memoir, charting Hagen’s rise from club professional to international golfing icon, and offering vivid insights into the early professional game, exhibition tours, and the transformation of golf into a spectator sport. An important golfing autobiography, increasingly sought-after in first edition dust-jacket.

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