Description
Signed first edition, first printing of Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella.
Octavo, [12], 265pp. Gray hardcover, beige cloth spine, title stamped in gilt on spine. The first printing, with a full number line on copyright page. Faint sunning along top quarter, some foxing along top edge of text block. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket, $11.95 on front flap, bright illustrations, light soiling to rear panel, a very good example.
Signed on the half title: “For Paul / Bill Kinsella / Feb 1, 84.”
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella was first published in 1980 as a short story titled Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa in An Illustrated Anthology of Baseball Fiction. The story was later expanded into the novel Shoeless Joe, published in 1982, which became Kinsella’s most famous work. The novel’s success led to its adaptation into the 1989 film Field of Dreams, further solidifying its place in baseball and literary history.
