THE UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC. J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP

by Robert Coover

$300 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Random House, 1968 . Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A clever metaphor about the power of fantasy over reality, Coover's novel features J. Henry Waugh, a nebbish who devises a complicated baseball board game. The game soon becomes more real to him than the surrounding world and begins to regulate his life. - Barron ed , Fantasy Literature 4A-75. Survey of Modern Fantasy

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