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.
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the title page. Crisp and clean; binding tight; hard cover shows only mild rubbing and softening at the spine ends, jacket a little shallow wrinkling at the spine head, a...... More
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1992. Later Printing. Paperback. Signed and dated by the poet on the title page, with a brief inscription to a named individual. The pages are clean and crisp except for four corner folds; the soft cover shows only negligible corner wear, otherwise excellent. More
The University of Michigan Press, 2005. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with an inscription to a named individual. Crisp, clean pages; the hard cover shows only negligible shelfwear at corners; the dust jacket is moderately sunned along the spine and bears a...... More
Houghton Mifflin, 1994. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with a brief inscription to a named individual (and date in year of publication). Crisp, clean pages except for two corner folds; no other owners' marks; the hard cover shows only..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Clean and bright except for mild sunning along the spine; no owners' marks; jacket shows a thin crease at the top front and small crimping at the spine ends, otherwise..... More
Ecco Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp and clean except for gentle toning in the margins and some foxing at endpapers and around the page block edges; binding is rather relaxed, but square, the quarter red cloth..... More
Stanford University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the half-title page. Clean except for that individual's ownership note on the front free endpaper; front cover curves slightly outward and jacket bears modest shelfwear at corners; otherwise excellent.; Signed by Author. More
Norfolk, Virginia: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and numbered 170 (of 250) by the author opposite the title page. Clean and bright; hard cover only lightly shelfworn at spine ends, jacket briefly creased at spine head, otherwise excellent, the jacket unclipped and now in a clear..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page, and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the blank page across from the title. Crisp, clean pages; hard cover is only mildly shelfworn at spine ends; dust jacket shows..... More
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San Francisco: McSweeney, 2003. Limited Edition. Hardcover. From the 2,000 copy limited printing of "Hand's Revised Edition"; signed by the author at the front cover (no date or inscription). Except for a little modest wear at the edges of the front board, as new, clean and crisp.; Signed by Author..... More
Iowa City, IA, U.S.A. Parker Davis Publishing, 1997. Paperback. Clean and bright, with no owners' marks or wear; as new. This book catalogues Iowa City Public Library's first hundred years, from its origins as a proposed solution to a spike in downtown crime in the 19th century, to the approval..... More
Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2011. First Printing. Paperback. Signed by the poet on the title page, with no date or inscription. Crisp, clean pages; the soft cover has lines of laminate bubbling along the right front and left rear edges, along with tiny edge chips at the spine heel, otherwise..... More
Providence, Rhode Island: Copper Beech Press, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author, to named individuals, at the title page. Crisp, bright, clean pages; square, uncreased spine; soft cover has gentle sunning along the spine, one thin, short scuff at each spine end, one tiny scratch..... More
Scribner, 2008. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page, with no date or inscription; modest toning in the margins throughout, and just a touch of crimping at the spine head of the dust jacket, otherwise excellent. Jacket now protected in a clear sleeve.; Signed by Author..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a bound-in page inserted after the front free endpaper. Clean and bright; some crimping at the spine heel of hard cover and dust jacket, some light shelf rubbing at the jacket corners, otherwise excellent; unclipped jacket now..... More
New York: Sino Publishing Co, 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author, with an inscription to a named individual, on the front free endpaper, this beautifully kept copy has clean, bright pages, square, tight binding, a bound-in ribbon a bit frayed at the bottom, orange cloth showing..... More
Bedbug Press, 2005. Paperback. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author to two named individuals at the title page. Crisp, bright, and clean; except for a small wrinkle and modest rubbing at the spine head, as new.; Signed by Author. More
W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with an inscription to a named individual. Crisp, clean pages; the hard cover and dust jacket show light edgewear and crimping at spine ends, and the jacket bears a gentle fold..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with an inscription (containing quite the story) to two named individuals. Crisp and clean; the hard cover and dust jacket show light corner wear, otherwise excellent, the jacket unclipped and now..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the poet on the title page, with a lengthy inscription to specific, if unnamed, individuals. Crisp, bright, clean pages; the hard cover and dust jacket show light shelfwear at spine ends, and the jacket is very lightly..... More
Little, Brown and Company, 2017. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on an otherwise blank page preceding the half-title; no date, inscription, or named recipient. First edition, first printing. Clean and bright, with no owners' or publishers' marks; except for very mild shelfwear at the top corners of the..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2009. Paperback. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with a brief inscription to a named individual. Crisp, clean, with no owners' marks; except for gentle age-toning starting at the page edges, excellent, nearly as new.; Signed by Author. More
Cumming, Iowa: Iowa Arts Council, 2003. Second Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Clean and bright except for the word "Discard" stamped twice on the front endpaper, a library's address stamped at the bottom of the foreword page, and tidy excision..... More
Cumming, Iowa: Iowa Arts Council, 2003. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the half title page, with no date, inscription, or named recipient. Clean and bright; except for tiny points of shelf rubbing at the bottom corners of the hard cover, as new.; Signed by Author. More
