The Art of Fielding (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

A$100 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

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HARBACH, Chad. The Art of Fielding. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015. Octavo. Full brown leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt lettering and design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 512 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special limitation page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. Chad Harbach (b. 1975) grew up in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, attended Harvard, took his MFA at the University of Virginia, and co-founded the literary magazine n+1 , which under his editorial direction became one of the most influential journals of ideas in contemporary American letters. The Art of Fielding took the better part of a decade to write and sold to Little, Brown for $665,000 — one of the largest advances paid for a debut American novel in recent memory. Jonathan Franzen, who read it in manuscript, wrote: "First novels this complete and consuming come along very, very seldom." The New York Times called it "wonderful... a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting." Westish College is a small liberal arts school on the shore of Lake Michigan, fictional and deliberately so — a place of sufficient obscurity that its baseball team's unlikely run of success can be felt as something genuinely meaningful b

• Binding: Hardcover

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