Prospect (signed)
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston:, 1989
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. A beautiful copy -- clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny. NO chips. NO tears. NOT price clipped (17.95). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp -- probably never read. The author's first book -- a delightful novel steeped in the lore and nurtured by the mythology of baseball. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Bound in the original blue boards, with a blue cloth spine lettered in shiny gold. McCue p. 65. From the Dust Jacket: "Pete Estey, divorced, retired, and prematurely consigned to Fair Haven, a retirement home. He has spent a wonderful working life as a baseball scout. One of the attendants Fair Haven, however, decides she won't let him give up. Louise's motives turn out to be not entirely selfless -- she has a young grandnephew who she thinks might have the makings of a major-league baseball player. And thanks to her, Pete realizes that the most important player of his career still remains to be discovered: the Prospect.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Fine condition/Very Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Minor, Wendell (jacket art). 8vo. (viii), 227pp.…
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- Title
- Prospect (signed)
- Author
- Littlefield, Bill
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston:
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Very Fine condition
- Dust jacket
- Very Fine dust jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0395491681
- ISBN 13
- 9780395491683
- Illustrator
- Minor, Wendell (jacket art)
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Baseball
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Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Retired from baseball scouting and waiting for death in a rest home, Pete Estey becomes friends with Louise, an employee at the rest home. After a fire, Louise offers her home to Pete and tries to make him feel life is worth living. Her grandnephew, Jack Brown, is a born ball player; and Louise maneuvers to get the two together for the benefit of both. There is a great deal of charm in the relationship between Pete and Louise and a variety of insights into the process of growing old. There is also a substantial amount of baseball lore, to be expected in a first novel by a sports commentator. Written with more warmth than cynicism, this should have wider appeal than the subject matter might suggest. See LJ 's "First Novelists," p. 41.
- Robert H. Donahugh, Youngstown and Mahoning Cty. P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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