I love collecting signed books!!

[cindyluvsbrady]

Does anyone else???
If you have one NEVER sell it:eek:
They will try to give 0 $ for it:rolleyes:

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First Edition Signed Dumas Malone

Volume 3. Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty
“Not only has Mr. Malone mastered the vast body of Jefferson’s correspondence and the writings of his contemporaries, but he has fully explored the wealth of monographic material devoted to this epoch. . . . Throughout the book there is a sense of proportion and balance which might well be called classic.”—Harry Ammon, Virginia Magazine

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Third Base is My Home

Brooks Robinson

Signed

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Afghanistan Diaries (9781591138969):

Anthony J. Pente ...

Signed

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'Don't Make Me Cry, Roy, Adventures in Interviewing'


Roy Firestone

• Magic Turtle Press

Signed

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Crisis

By: R. C. Shields

ISBN10:1-4415-7378-X

Signed

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Damages

B.K. BAZHE

Signed

[DurbBird]

I have some cool signed books, including the following:


Blood Meridian, later pb edition signed by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian, 1st ed./1st printing in dustjacket (not signed; if it were, I could retire)
The Producers, 1st/1st in dj, signed by Mel Brooks and Tom Meehan
Room, 1st in dj, signed by Emma Donoghue
Andersonville, 1st in slipcase, signed by MacKinlay Kantor
Hothead, 1st/1st in dj, signed by Cal Ripken, jr.
The King's Henchman, signed by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Deems Taylor (composer)
A Mercy, 1st in dj, signed by Toni Morrison
Call It Courage, 1st in dj, inscribed by Armstrong Sperry to Dorothy McKibben, "the gatekeeper to Los Alamos" during the Manhattan Project
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, 1st in dj, by Rebecca Skloot

I also have signed copies of books by the poet Witter Bynner, Karen Armstrong, Kathleen Norris, Richard Selzer, Richard Russo, Richard Rhodes, Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin, Michio Kaku, and authors who have signed at the bookstore.

The only thing better than reading books is collecting them!

[TGO]

Of the top of my head I know I own The Corner, signed by David Simon (would love to get co-author Ed Burns to sign too), and Blackhawk Down, signed by Mark Bowden.

EDIT: Also own Gridlock Economy by Michael Heller.

[Spoonless]

The City and the City, 1st UK ed. signed by China Miéville
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, 1st US ed. signed by Haruki Murakami

Both of these, I mailed my copy for the author to inscribe. Apparently, it's pretty well received, as they can do it at their leisure instead of signing book after book at a signing event. Both have an inscription a bit more personal than just the author's signature.

[TGO]

The City and the City, 1st UK ed. signed by China Miéville
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, 1st US ed. signed by Haruki Murakami

Both of these, I mailed my copy for the author to inscribe. Apparently, it's pretty well received, as they can do it at their leisure instead of signing book after book at a signing event. Both have an inscription a bit more personal than just the author's signature.

I hadn't thought of that for some reason. Do you send it to their publisher/agency?

[Spoonless]

I contacted the US publisher through email in both cases. In Murakami's case, my contact person checked with him, and then gave me his office address in Tokyo to send it to. In Miéville's case, the publisher had me send it to a contact with the author's UK publisher, who got the book to him to sign. In both cases, I of course included return postage. I'll probably end up sending out more books, as USPS flat-rate boxes are pretty reasonable, and it's pretty neat to do. Mr. Miéville handwrote me a letter thanking me for the patronage, which was really cool.

[cindyluvsbrady]

I am still looking for a Maurice Sendak signed book!!!!