Search Results: the iowa baseball confederacy by kinsella wp

Ballantine, 1987. Paperback in Good Condition. Paperback. Good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. DJ has a slight closed tear on top of Dj front, unnoticeable in protective sleeve. No other flaws. A delightful fantasy about baseball, love and the power of dreams. Concerns an obsession to prove to the world that the world champion Chicago Cubs traveled to Onamata, Iowa, in 1908 for an exhibition game that turned out to be a titanic battle with the an amatuer Iowa team that lasted two thousand innings.

Boston/ New York: Mariner Books/ Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. Fine. Cover by Christopher Moisan. 13300 shelf. Unread. Trade paperback, photo covers, white spine. No names, clean text. By the author of Shoeless Joe.

Ballantine Books, 1996. Trade paperback. As new. Ballantine Books, c1996. 8vo. Uncreased spine, as new unread trade paperback.

Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight crease to jacket on spine..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($16.95), lightly rubbing and soiling. Quarter cream buckram with green paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. From the author who wrote the source material for Field of Dreams, a magical realism novel focused on baseball.

BOST: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Highly acclaimed baseball novel by the author of "Shoeless Joe." Slight soiling to d.w. extremes. The first edition of this baseball novel. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG.

Toronto: Totem Books, 1987. First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Very light creasing to the spine, some yellow spots about the spine and hinges not affecting interior. Text is clean. 310 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine..

Boston: Mifflin, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper flaps glued to book. Dustwrapper slightly yellowed. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

MA: HMC, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover with similar dustwrapper. First edition. Text clean. Clean cover. Spine ends lightly bumped. Dustwrapper price clipped. Couple small nicks on bottom edge on rear dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1986. 1st Printing. . Boards & Cloth with Dustjacket. The second novel by Kinsella who is most know for his baseball fantasy "Shoeless Joe" that was filmed as "Field Of Dreams" a few years back. This novel is also a baseball fantasy. Jacket artwork by Wendell Minor. Tiny tear to the bottom edge of the front panel of the dustjacket an even smaller tear to the top edge of the back panel and a tiny crimp to the bottom edge of the spine panel otherwise a fine copy in a fine dustjacket

Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Light fading to spine..

Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Light fading to spine..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Highly acclaimed baseball novel by the author of "Shoeless Joe." Previous owner's neat name(s) on ffep, otherwise tight, bright and clean. The first edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Toronto: Collins, 1986. Book has a 1/4" tear in cloth top of rear gutter (this may be a production flaw as there is no matching tear to dust jacket), and remainder mark on title page (a small green "C" in a small green circle neatly stamped below author's name); otherwise internally clean, unmarked and tightly bound. . Minor edge wear to dust jacket including two 1/4" tears along the top edge. Author's second baseball novel, following the very successful "Shoeless Joe". 310 pages. . First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine.

Don Mills: Totem Books, 1987. First Edition. paperback. Very Good/no dustjacket. 8vo. Signed by Author. pp. 310.Signed by the author on front end page.

This is a first edition of The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, a 1986 novel written by the Canadian author W.P. Kinsella (1935-2016). Kinsella is best known for his novel Shoeless Joe, which became the film Field of Dreams. The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world that the indomitable Chicago Cubs traveled to Iowa in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against an amateur league, the Iowa Baseball Confederacy. But a simple game somehow turned into a titanic battle of more than two thousand innings, and Gideon Clark struggles to set the record straight on this infamous game that no one else believes ever happened.
310 pages.
The dust jacket is unclipped and has wear along the edges.
The book's spine is cream and has a little discoloration. It was a gift and there is an inscription on the front endpaper. But it doesn't appear that the recipient read it.
Other than that, it's perfect.

Don Mills: Collins, 1986. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 310.

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. (1st) Sturdy book, cream cloth spine, green boards, blue lettering on spine very fine, red color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 310 lightly browned pages plus brief biographical note. DJ price-clipped, beneath mylar with a colorful illustration on front, praise on back from George Plimpton, New York Times Book Review and others. Near Fine DJ/Very Fine book.