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.
Bloomsbury, 2015. First U.S. Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with no inscription or named recipient. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; small bumps at the top right front and top left rear have cause short wrinkles and some rubbing wear on the surface..... 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
Cumming, Iowa: Iowa Arts Council, 2003. Second Printing. Hardcover. 4to. 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..... 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. More
Privately Published, 1994. Soft Cover. Signed and inscribed by Alejandro Fogel, to a named individual, inside the front cover. Clean, bright pages; square, tight binding; soft cover has scattered, small patches of surface wear at the right front, some scratching on the rear, and light shelf wear around the edges..... More
Ballantine Books, 2013. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author (with a personal chop) on a publisher's tipped-in page preceding the half-title; no inscription, named recipient, or date. Clean except for some specking on the heel edge of the page block; no owners' marks; hard cover and dust jacket show..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a publisher's preprinted bookplate affixed to the half-title page; no date or inscription. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; some softening at spine ends and mild rubbing at spine ends and corners of hard cover, a tiny chip..... More
Warrensburg, Missouri: Mid-America Press, Inc., 2001. Paperback. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp, bright, and clean except for a few tiny specks on the back of the soft cover; no owners' marks; nearly as new. More
Turning Point, 2006. Paperback. Signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by William Ford on the title page. Clean, with no owners' marks; a small fold across the bottom right front corner of the soft cover and some shelfwear at the spine heel, otherwise excellent. More
Chicago: Flood Editions, 2013. Paperback. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author, to a named individual, at the title page. Pages crisp and clean except for one corner fold; spine square and uncreased; soft cover shows tiny wrinkles at three free corners, shelf rubbing at bottom front, top rear, and..... More
Turning Point, 2009. Paperback. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author to named individuals at the title page. Clean and bright except for a single pale, brown spot at the top rear of the soft cover; the cover's lower corners also show tiny bends and some rubbing; otherwise excellent. More
Davenport, Iowa: Dark River Press, 1993. Soft Cover. Signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the title page. Pages clean and bright; spine square and uncreased; white soft cover shows a light bump and wrinkles at the spine heel, a few faint marks and smudges..... More
Ice Cube Press, 2008. Paperback. Small 4to. Signed by the author on the first (title) page with advice to "Go Slow!" No date or named recipient. Clean and bright; the cover bears a small pressure mark on the back and gentle shelf rubbing at spine ends, otherwise excellent. Friese's project..... More
Guerini e Associati, 2001. Paperback. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author to a named individual at the half-title page. Crisp, clean pages except for blue pen marks on p.109, on the back of the final page of the index, and on the very last (blank) page. Spine is square..... More
Penguin, 1991. Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page with a very short inscription to a named individual. Pages are clean except for age-toning in the margins; soft cover shows a short surface tear across mid-spine, some darkening at spine and upper rear, and edgewear with some chipping..... More
Henry Holt & Company, 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the half-title page with a brief note to a named individual; signed again on the title page with no date or inscription; clean and bright except for modest foxing along the head edges of the pages and..... More
Spurwink Press, 2002. Firm Paper. From the limited edition of eighty copies, this is copy number 19; signed by the poet at the title page with no date or inscription. Paper and firm paper cover are immaculate, clean and bright, without any hint of wear. A beautifully made book. More
Copper Canyon Press, 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the poet on the title page, with no date or inscription. Clean except for pale dust spotting along the foreedges and a light pencil ghost on the front endpaper; hard cover bears only tiny spots of shelfwear at corners, jacket a...... More
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Washington Writers' Publishing House, 1990. Soft Cover. Signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by the author at title page. Light rubbing to edges and corners of wraps; two tiny surface chips to wraps at fore and very nominal surface scuffing, but colour remains bright, surface..... More
Allen, Texas, U.S.A. Thomas More Press, 2001. Hardcover. Signed by both authors, with no date or inscription, on the half-title page. Crisp, bright, clean pages; square, tight binding; hard cover shows only very light wear at the spine ends. Jacket has some edge rubbing and shallow, gentle creases around the..... More
Corning, Iowa: Gauthier Publishing Company, 1992. Paperback. 4to. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author to a named individual on the first (blank) page. Crisp, bright, clean pages; there is a slender, shallow reading crease at the lower third of the spine, binding unaffected; soft cover bears a small dark..... More
Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription, this copy is crisp, bright, and clean as new, with the jacket protected in a new, clear sleeve. More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2012. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the half-title page, with an inscription to a fellow novelist. Crisp, clean pages except for a patch of small brown smudges on the head edge of the page block; hard cover shows only negligible..... More
The Maecenas Press, 1995. Paperback. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; a short, light fold at the top right rear and mild edgewear, otherwise excellent. This book follows the University of Iowa's famous English department from the first classes in 1861 to the mid-1960s. It includes profiles of professors and..... More
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page, with no date or inscription. Clean, with no owners' marks; mild softening to spine heel and bottom free corners of the hard cover, a mild ripple to the top front edge of the dust..... More
