Shoeless Joe.

KINSELLA, W.P. [Kevin Costner].

Item Number: 142695

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the film Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, “Best Wishes Bill Kinsella April 7/83 Calgary, Alberta.” Additionally signed by Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Costner below Kinsella’s inscription [signed in a rush at LAX]. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Uncommon signed by both Kinsella and Costner.

"Kinsella is drunk on complementary elixirs, literature and baseball, and the cocktail he mixes of the two is a lyrical, seductive and altogether winning concoction" (New York Times). Basis for the 1989 film starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Burt Lancaster.