Signed by Stephen Jay Gould
Baseball & the Game of Ideas: Essays for the Serious Fan
Publication: Delhi, NY: Birch Brook Press, 1993. First Edition.
Notes: A collection of essays on the great American pastime, signed by all the contributors including Stephen Jay Gould and the novelist Mark Harris, who wrote Bang the Drum Slowly.
This copy came from Gould's Harvard office library, and it may be a contributor's copy, specially signed by the writers on the half-title page. Gould, a National Book Award-winning science writer and one of the leading evolutionary theorists of the late 20th century, was passionate about baseball and often wrote on the subject. This collection reprints his essay Why No One Hits .400 Anymore.
212 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A fine copy in plain light blue boards, stamped in gilt. Not issued in a dust jacket. This copy is signed by Gould, Harris, and a dozen other writers. A posthumous bookplate denoting that this copy once belonged to Stephen Jay Gould is mounted to the inside front cover (pastedown).
Item No: #364177
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