265pp. White cloth spine, blue boards. Gilt titles on spine, gilt baseball player on front board. Minimal toning, otherwise, pages clean and unmarked internally. Dust jacket crisp and intact, with light a touch of wear to the lower extremities. in mylar sleeve. First edition of Kinsella's novel, the basis for the beloved classic film, Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones. This title is accompanied by a Rawlings signed Official Ball of the Amreican League. The author has signed and inscribed the ball, "Go the distance, Bill Kinsella". A unique pairing of items. Size: Octavo.

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Title: Shoeless Joe (with Signed Baseball)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
Publication Date: 1982
ISBN 10: 0395389526
ISBN 13: 9780395389522
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed and Inscribed By Author
Book Type: Book

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His quest to prove that the world-champion Chicago Cubs of 1908 met the amateur Iowa Baseball Confederacy in an epic game of more than two thousand innings brings Gideon Clarke and his friend Stan in touch with destiny

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On the day he met his true love, a carnival performer named Darling Maudie, Matthew Clarke was literally struck by lightning and magically imbued with the knowledge that in 1908 the Chicago Cubs had traveled to Onamata, Iowa, to play a seemingly endless game against an all-star amateur team, the Iowa Baseball Confederacy. He spends the rest of his life trying to prove this fact to the worldeven writing a dissertation on itbut no one else remembers the Confederacy or the game. When Matthew commits an imaginative suicide (by allowing himself to be hit by a stray line drive), his son Gideon, the hero of this tale, inherits his father's obsession. With the help of an old family friend who has a glimmer of memory of the game, Gideon and a friend, Stan, travel back through time to 1908, to witness the event and to learn about the mysterious forces that caused a memory lapse in those who witnessed it. In his first novel since Shoeless Joe, Kinsella returns to the magical turf he created there: a loving mixture of baseball, life and fantasy, in a world where dreams don't have to come true, because they have a validity all their own.
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