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Shoeless Joe
by Kinsella, W. P
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- near fine
- ISBN 10
- 039532047X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395320471
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. Hardcover. near fine. 1st American Edition. 5p.l.,265pp. Octavo. White cloth binding with Gilt lettering on spine. Grey paper covered boards (3/4) with gilt decoration. Forest green endpapers. Clean, tight text block. In dust jacket, worn and creased at edges and spine, with some very light chipping. Not price clipped. A lovely copy. near fine Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. A heart warming story of Ray Kinsella and baseball. 1982
Synopsis
More than the inspiration for the beloved film Field of Dreams , Shoeless Joe is a mythical novel about “dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American” ( Philadelphia Inquirer ). “If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words, spoken by an Iowa baseball announcer, inspire Ray Kinsella to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield in honor of his hero, the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson. What follows is both a rich, nostalgic look at one of our most cherished national pastimes and a remarkable story about fathers and sons, love and family, and the inimitable joy of finding your way home.
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130353
- Title
- Shoeless Joe
- Author
- Kinsella, W. P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 4
- ISBN 10
- 039532047X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395320471
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Can Lit|Baseball|Canadian Author|Canadian Literature
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About the Seller
Aquila Books
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Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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