PLIMPTON, George. The Bogey Man (Inscribed first edition)

New York & Evanston: Harper & Row, 1968. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s original green cloth, spine lettered in black, in the original pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy in a good, price-clipped dust jacket, the jacket showing general rubbing and handling wear with small losses at extremities; cloth bright and sound. Internally clean. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “For Tim – well very best wishes – George Plimpton.”

A classic of modern sports writing. In The Bogey Man, George Plimpton immerses himself in the world of professional tournament golf, competing alongside leading players in order to record, with characteristic wit and candour, the pressures of elite competition. Following the success of Paper Lion, this volume further established Plimpton as the foremost practitioner of participatory journalism.

Signed first editions are increasingly sought after, particularly in the field of golf literature and twentieth-century American sporting memoir.

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