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Your favorite autographed book?
Posted on 9/24/23 at 5:51 pm
Posted on 9/24/23 at 5:51 pm
Friends,
Earlier today I lost in an online auction for a signed copy of what appears to be a clean first edition, first printing of A River Runs Through It. My high bid was $1500 and I thought the auction was finished tonight, but I just checked with Davis Brothers, who are hosting the auction. I was outbid at $1700 over four hours ago and the gavel is already down. I am so upset that I did not pay closer attention. If it was indeed a first printing it probably has a worth between $5,000 and $10,000, and the auctioneers did a very poor job of selling it. Very few clean signed first printings exist of this, America’s best novel. It would have been my most cherished autographed book. I do have a signed first edition, third copy that is in fair condition which probably is worth $500-$1000. While I lick my wounds it got me thinking, what is your favorite autographed book in your collection?
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Earlier today I lost in an online auction for a signed copy of what appears to be a clean first edition, first printing of A River Runs Through It. My high bid was $1500 and I thought the auction was finished tonight, but I just checked with Davis Brothers, who are hosting the auction. I was outbid at $1700 over four hours ago and the gavel is already down. I am so upset that I did not pay closer attention. If it was indeed a first printing it probably has a worth between $5,000 and $10,000, and the auctioneers did a very poor job of selling it. Very few clean signed first printings exist of this, America’s best novel. It would have been my most cherished autographed book. I do have a signed first edition, third copy that is in fair condition which probably is worth $500-$1000. While I lick my wounds it got me thinking, what is your favorite autographed book in your collection?
Yours,
TulaneLSU
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Posted on 9/24/23 at 8:02 pm to TulaneLSU
The Cloud of Unknowing,
Posted on 9/24/23 at 8:29 pm to ecb
Friend,
You should bring that to a museum immediately. Can you tell us who signed it?
Yours,
TulaneLSU
You should bring that to a museum immediately. Can you tell us who signed it?
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:31 am to TulaneLSU
I'll sell you one for $1350, saving you $150. If you buy two I'll do the pair for $2000. Let me know if interested.
Posted on 9/25/23 at 9:36 am to TulaneLSU
A few years ago I would have said my hardback 1st edition Game of Thrones signed by GRRM, but I don't even like the dude any more. I got a first edition I, Robot hardback signed by Asimov pretty cheap not long ago because the dust jacket wasn't in the best condition. It's one of my better ones. I have a first edition hardback (I try and avoid paperback with my nicer stuff) of Before They are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie. You can find his signed stuff pretty easily but it's normally with his newer stuff not the original First Law trilogy.
I'm trying next for a East of Eden by Steinbeck. The first editions go at a reasonable price and his autos don't fetch a ton so I'm hoping I could get one of them for a couple hundred dollars.
Grail signature would be Tolkien but they just never pop up and they go for insane prices now. Would settle for an very early print of one of the LOTR or Hobbit. I'm in a few rare book club buy/sell groups on Facebook but anytime a nice one comes up they want over market value.
Wouldn't mind a signed Twain as well or an early print hardback Huckelberry Finn.
I'm trying next for a East of Eden by Steinbeck. The first editions go at a reasonable price and his autos don't fetch a ton so I'm hoping I could get one of them for a couple hundred dollars.
Grail signature would be Tolkien but they just never pop up and they go for insane prices now. Would settle for an very early print of one of the LOTR or Hobbit. I'm in a few rare book club buy/sell groups on Facebook but anytime a nice one comes up they want over market value.
Wouldn't mind a signed Twain as well or an early print hardback Huckelberry Finn.
Posted on 9/26/23 at 6:58 am to TulaneLSU
It was signed Anonymous, lol..
Posted on 9/26/23 at 7:00 am to TulaneLSU
There is a lot of forgery in the art world, how do you know it's real?
Posted on 9/26/23 at 8:59 am to ecb
quote:
There is a lot of forgery in the art world, how do you know it's real?
Friend,
It was signed in Old World English.
Yours,
MDS
Posted on 9/26/23 at 11:38 am to ecb
quote:
There is a lot of forgery in the art world, how do you know it's real?
I know this wasn't directed towards me and i didn't see the book but Beckett and JSA are two companies that are reputable for authentication. Book could have been certified by them or you had some other provenance like a picture of him signing the book. Not that hard to find out if it's real or not.
Posted on 10/18/23 at 7:57 pm to TulaneLSU
Where the Red Ferns Grows. Wilson Rawls. Still tear up at the end.
Posted on 11/19/23 at 8:12 pm to TulaneLSU
I have a double signed 1st edition of Cold Mountain.
Charles Frazier signed it for me at Lemuria in Jackson MS in 1995. And then I handed it back to him in 2007 to be signed again.
When he looked at the signature he said: "Well, this might be the only double signed copy that I am 100% sure isn't fake. Because I hurt my hand right before I came here. And I experimented with a different signature for about a week. And I probably didn't sign more than 100 books with that signature. And this is the first one I've ever gotten back. I had almost forgotten about that signature."
So anyhow I have two totally different signatures from the same author on the same book more than 20 years apart
Charles Frazier signed it for me at Lemuria in Jackson MS in 1995. And then I handed it back to him in 2007 to be signed again.
When he looked at the signature he said: "Well, this might be the only double signed copy that I am 100% sure isn't fake. Because I hurt my hand right before I came here. And I experimented with a different signature for about a week. And I probably didn't sign more than 100 books with that signature. And this is the first one I've ever gotten back. I had almost forgotten about that signature."
So anyhow I have two totally different signatures from the same author on the same book more than 20 years apart
Posted on 11/20/23 at 6:52 am to TulaneLSU
Jesmyn Ward Let Us Descend. This is a new signature, of course, but I really think she is the Faulkner of our time. Or close. She’s amazing.
Posted on 11/28/23 at 10:57 pm to IStandBytheU
The Bible, I'm old.
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