Autographed books

[Dookus]

Anybody collect 'em?

I have a few Truman Capote's, two Gore Vidals, a Phillip Roth, and my all-time favorite:

Billie Burke's autobiography, inscribed to a friend. For those who don't know, Billie was Glinda, the Good Witch of the North and the wife of empresario Flo Ziegfeld.

[Richardo]

1. I don't collect, but I have an Ansel Adams and a Chuck Jones

"Yosemite and the Range of Light", and "Duck Amuck" respectively.

[Pithlet]

2. My husband has one from Neil Gaiman

Stardust. That's it, though. I'd like to collect some.

[Dookus]

18. nice

I've just recently become a Gaiman fan. I read Coraline and Neverwhere and loved 'em.

[Pithlet]

23. Neverwhere is my favorite.

American Gods is good, too. The Sandman Series is great if you like horror/fantasy comics. Of course, you have to read Good Omens, which he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett.

[Dookus]

25. I just finished Good Omens

one of the most enjoyable reads ever.

[wryter2000]

3. Ralph Vaughn Williams

I got a handwritten note from Ralph Vaughn Williams for my husband last year. He loves it.

[DS1]

4. I have WAR ON IRAQ - Autographed by Will ~and~ Ritter

You may grovel before me

[reprehensor]

5. Wow.

I have an autographed Clive Barker book, Coldheart Canyon, and a Ben Bova, Jupiter, I think.

Do you trade?

[Dookus]

8. no, no trading

just collecting. I also have a nice collection of first-editions. Almost every Capote (still kicking myself I didn't buy Breakfast at Tiffany's when I had a chance), a bunch of Vidals, some Doctorow, one Faulkner... love the 20th Century American writers.

[arwalden]

6. I Waited In Line To Get Tom Clancy To Autograph A Book For My Dad...

He was such an asshole!

When it was my turn, I approached the table and I said "Hello. Could you personalize it 'To: Jack' for me please."

His response took longer than it would have just to write "t-o-j-a-c-k"... but he chose instead to lecture me about how unfair it would be if he were to take too much time to write personalized inscriptions to everyone in the line... blah blah blah.

Yeah, whatever, just sign the goddammed book!

-- Allen

[chelsea0011]

7. I have quite a few signatures, but one of my faves is Patti Davis

It's a Reagan week so I saw her signing in Boston and there wasn't one single person in line. Not a one! So I wandered up and got her new book signed. I never did read the book, and it was the most carefree autograph I ever got. Not like waiting in line for hours for Jimmy Carter's book. The sickest group had to be the Newt signing. What a bunch of effin morons.

[Dookus]

11. heheh

yeah, I skipped a chance to get Carter to autograph his book of poems. I love the man, but it would've entailed waiting in line for hours in the rain.

I've never actually gone to a book-signing event - at least not one in which I chose to wait for the autograph. The sad fact is that if I like the author, I already own the book before s/he comes to town for a signing.

When I lived in Palo Alto, there were plenty of big-name writers in town - I saw a bunch of 'em. Now I'm in a small town and few bother to come here.

[gratuitous]

9. Let's see

Allen Ginsburg's "Cosmopolitan Greetings," a book by Hans Kung, R.B. Bernstein's Jefferson biography, and Paul Robeson's personal copy of a book on swing music by Louis Armstrong.

Wow, I'm pretty cool.

[Dookus]

12. wow..

Ginsburg and Robeson?! I bow to you.

[Parrcrow]

10. lets see.....

I have a couple of Nino Ricci, a few Paul Quarrington and Mordechai Richler's Apprenticship of Duddy Kravitz.

[Kellanved]

13. I have a "Hey Dude, Where is my Country",

and a few children's books/ German comedy things, but I don't collect them.

[4_Legs_Good]

14. "The Exception to the Rulers" and "The Politics of Truth"

are recent aquisitions. I have a few others, nothing astounding, though.

david

[Blue-Jay]

15. "Coming Through Slaughter" by Michael Ondaatje

"Illinium" by Dan Simmons
"To Your Scattered Bodies Go" by Philip Jose Farmer
There's another, but I forget which it is. (picked it up used at a funky little bookstore in Yellow Springs)

[Maddy McCall]

16. I have several first editions auto'ed by Will Davis Campbell...

if you aren't a fan of southern authors, you wouldn't appreciate it.

[Dookus]

17. I'm a huge fan of southern authors

but I'm sorry to say I'm not familiar with Campbell.

[Maddy McCall]

29. A must-read if you want to understand the twentieth century south...

"Brother to a Dragonfly." I keep several copies to give to friends on special occasions. A fabulous insider story about growing up in the early and mid-twentieth-century south. Campbell discusses his evolution from a small-town preacher to one of the founding members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Campbell was with the Little Rock children when they attempted to integrate the public school in Little Rock.

If you have some spare time, you MUST go read his oral history transcript. It's available here:


http://anna.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/oh/campbell.htm

His stance on civil rights caused southerners in his home town to issue death threats against him. He is an anti-institutional "preacher without a pulpit" to all of the world's downtrodden. He says manmade institutions have corrupted the true meaning of Christianity, and only exist to perpetuate themselves. He is a rebel, if he is anything. He's probably in his mid-eighties now.

He drinks whiskey. In the past, he has even had his own still. He visits the local jukejoint in his hometown in Tennessee. He had a summer off a couple of decades ago--at Jessie Coulter's request, he toured with Waylon Jennings as his cook and got him off drugs. The guy's story is just amazing. You have to go read his oral history.

[flamingyouth]

19. Wow, that's a nice collection

I too have a signed Billie Burke autobiography, as well as one by the opera singer/silent film star Geraldine Farrar.

I have a collection of signed silent film bios, notably Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri, Lillian Gish, "Baby Peggy" Diana Serra Cary and of course Colleen Moore.:D

[Dookus]

20. very nice!

You have a great collection. I can't believe somebody else has Billie Burke's autographed book. It's titled "With a Feather on my Nose". She signed in it 1949.

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. I have some from current authors sigend to me. Women's fiction, mostly.

[SmokingJacket]

22. I'm very jealous...

of all of them. If you ever get tired of them collecting dust at your place, let me know!

I have a bunch of signed books by contemporary authors, but nothing special. My husband's a writer, and he occasionally finds books he's signed to "friends" in used bookstores. The nerve of some people!

[blm]

24. Mr. blm and I collect old books.

We especially love our Harry Clarke illustrated finds. Several years ago we found a 1925 Faust signed by Clarke and we lit up like Christmas trees.

And, of course, there's my MO'D stuff.

[Mrs. Venation]

26. I Don't Collect, But I Have An Autographed Copy

of Rita Mae Brown's Southern Discomfort, and I treasure it. I stood in line for a long time to get that autograph, and it's a moment I'll never forget.

[LWolf]

27. I have some.

I don't really collect; I used to meet children's authors frequently in my line of work, and I always gave my children signed books for Christmas. They're grown now, but still have a collection of signed books from their childhood. And I have some favorites signed. The only adult author is Ray Bradbury, a copy of Dandelion Wine. I think; there might be a few more in there somewhere. I have close to 3000 books.

My most recent additions were gifted to me last month; still kids' books. I enjoyed reading them, and I can share them with my students.

[liberalhistorian]

28. I've collected them for about twenty years now,

ever since I attended my first book signing in college. Here's some of what I have:

Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman, signed by her when she was an author-in-residence at my college 20 or so years ago.

Allen Ginsberg's poetry anthology, signed by him at a bookstore in Cleveland in the mid-90's.

Myrlie Evers-Williams's autobiography, signed by her in a bookstore in Cleveland in 1999.

The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley, signed by him when he was an author-in-residence at my college twenty years ago.

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean, anti-death penalty activist, signed by her when she spoke at a local Catholic church.

Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser, signed by him last month at a bookstore in Cleveland.

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and her newest book, a children's book, both signed by her in December at a bookstore in Cleveland.

I've got many more, but those are the ones that are most important to me.

[sonias]

30. Big collection of signed books

Mostly Sci-Fi but some political ones now too.

I have these political ones signed:
Hilary Clinton - Living History
Al Franken -Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Paul Krugman - The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
Willian Rivers Pitt -The Greatest Sedition is Silence Four Yeats in America
William Rivers Pitt - War on Iraq
Greg Palast - The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Molly Ivins - Bushwhacked
Jim Hightower -Thieves in High Places

My Fav Sci-Fi Books signed
William Gibson - Count Zero
Vernor Vinge - True Names
Neal Stephenson - Diamond Age and Quicksilver
All of Bruce Sterling's Novels (he lives in Austin so it's easy)
And I have two Neal Gaiman's books too Stardust and The Sandman: The Dream Hunters


I have 68 novels that have been signed by authors. I love my books.

Sonia

[Robb]

31. I'll autograph mine for you

...for a mere $1200. Bargain! :D











This price is of course negotiable. :evilgrin: