"A HIGH-FLYING HOME RUN": SUMMERLAND, INSCRIBED BY MICHAEL CHABON WITH HIS SKETCH OF A BASEBALL
CHABON, Michael. Summerland. New York: Miramax / Hyperion, (2002). Octavo, original white and blue paper boards, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket.
First edition of Pulitzer Prize-winning Chabon's "whimsical novel" about the magic of baseball, boldly inscribed on the title page by him, "To J— Michael Chabon" with his drawing of a baseball.
"Brave, baseball-playing children… [and] wise and adorable varmints populate the world of Michael Chabon's whimsical" novel (New York Times). Written with the young adult reader in mind, with Summerland "Pulitzer Prize-winner Chabon hits a high-flying home run" (Publishers Weekly). First edition. Precedes a signed limited edition.
A fine inscribed copy.