This is, after all, a UNESCO City of Literature and home to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so we tend to have a few books signed by authors. Whether they came to town with a professor or student, were signed at a reading at local legend Prairie Lights or at the University of Iowa, or were collected by the literature lovers of to Iowa City, signed books are commonly featured in our collection.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Signed by the author, without date or inscription, at the title page. Pages are crisp, bright, and clean; binding is square and tight; full cloth cover shows gentle fading around head edges and some rubbing at corners and spine ends..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author ("November 1st, 1957") on the first page of Part I, i.e., the page preceding the first page of Chapter One. Crisp, clean pages except for a prior seller's label at the front fixed endpaper and moderate age-toning..... More
Pantheon Books, 2002. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author across from the title page, with no date or inscription. Clean and bright, with no owners' marks; the hard cover and dust jacket show short wrinkles at the spine heel, otherwise excellent.; Signed by Author. More
Copper Canyon Press, 2019. Stated First Printing. Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page with a brief inscription to another poet. Crisp, clean pages except for a faint thumb-mark at the lower right edge; soft cover shows only nearly negligible edgewear at the bottom corners; otherwise fine. Winner..... More
Houghton Mifflin, 1996. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author at the title page with no date or inscription; publicity photograph of author laid in. This copy is crisp, bright, and clean as new, with the jacket now protected in a new, clear sleeve.; Signed by Author. More
W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 2005. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author at title page with no date or inscription. Crisp, bright, and clean; hard cover and dust jacket are a bit shelf-rubbed at the spine ends, and there is an "Autographed Copy" sticker on the front of the..... More
Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1993. Second Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the half-title page. Clean except for a few pale brown droplet stains on the lower right edge of the page block and two small, inky smudges on the front of the..... More
Aark Arts, 2008. Paperback. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the title page. Crisp, bright pages; secure saddle-stapled binding; soft cover has a long fold across the bottom left rear corner, a short bend at the top right front, some rubbing and grayish handling smudges..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Books, 1975. First Edition. One-Quarter Cloth. Signed by the author at the colophon and numbered 4 of 5 (presentation copies in the limited first edition), this book contains a bound-in original oil painting by Charles Bukowski, still protected with the original tissue guard; laid in is..... More
Grove Press, 2001. Later Printing. Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page, with no date or inscription. Crisp, bright, clean, with no owners' marks or wear; as new. This later edition contains two more stories. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1965. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the front free endpaper with no date or inscription. Pages crisp and clean except for a small chip at the heel edge of the first five leaves and a dark smudge on the foreedge of..... More
Random House, 2006. Trade Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page with a date, but no inscription or named recipient.; Signed by Author. More
Arbor House, 1987. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the half-title page (the inscription reads "Don't lose your head!"). Clean except for a prior owner's name on the front free endpaper and age-toning visible in the light-colored portions of the dust jacket;..... More
New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2001. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the title page. Clean and bright; very light edgewear at corners and spine ends of jacket and hard cover, otherwise excellent, with unclipped jacket now protected in a clear sleeve.;..... More
Cumberland, Iowa: The Pterodactyl Press, 1985. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the half-title page with a dated inscription to a named recipient. Author's first book; title page illustrated by John Gray Smalley. Crisp and clean, the red cloth cover still vivid and the title pastedown still bright; a translucent..... More
HarperPerennial, 1986. Paperback. Signed by the author, with a short inscription to a named individual, on the title page. Crisp, clean pages except for modest age-toning in the margins throughout; soft cover shows tiny creases and curls at the free corners and some edge chipping around corners and spine ends..... More
Random House, 1950. First Edition - First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by R. V. Cassill on the title page with no date or inscription; author's first book. Pages are crisp, but they are somewhat age toned and show some scattered finger smudges; there is a spot of soiling and a light..... More
Simon and Schuster, 1964. First Edition - First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to two named individuals by the author at the front free endpaper and separately signed by the author with an inscribed French aphorism (but without naming the recipients) on the title page. Pages are clean and crisp..... More
Columbia University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed by Joseph Ceravolo to a named individual on the front free endpaper; pages are clean, crisp, and bright; no owners' marks; binding is tight and square; the hard cover is faintly rubbed at the spine tips and a little..... More
Tucson: Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2006. Paperback. Signed and dated by the author on the first (half-title) page, with an inscription to a named individual. Clean and bright; except for very light corner wear, excellent, nearly as new.; Large 8vo; Signed by Author. More
Anchor Books, 2005. Later Printing. Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp and clean; square, uncreased spine; soft cover has a light bump and some wrinkles and tiny surface chips at the spine heel, a very thin crease at the left front..... More
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp, clean pages; hard cover is moderately bumped at the spine heel with some softening and concentric surface wrinkles; dust jacket bears only minor crimping at spine ends and modest..... More
Bear Star Press, 2010. Paperback. Signed and inscribed warmly (to a named individual) by the author on the half-title page; signed again and dated without inscription on the title page. Clean and bright; except for very light edgewear at the foreedges and spine ends of the soft cover, as new.;..... More
Roc, 2006. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription. Bright and clean except for a few tiny, dark specks on the top edge of the page block and inside the top rear edge of the dust jacket; hard cover shows modest..... More
Rhinebeck, New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 2016. Paperback. Signed by the author on the first (half-title) page. Clean and bright; except for a very light but long fold at the upper right front of the soft cover, excellent.; Signed by Author. More
