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Fort Lee, New Jersey: CavanKerry Press Ltd., 2006. Stated First Edition. Paperback. Signed by the poet on the half-title page, with no date or inscription. Crisp, bright, clean; no owners' marks; as new.; Signed by Author. More
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.
Fort Lee, New Jersey: CavanKerry Press Ltd., 2006. Stated First Edition. Paperback. Signed by the poet on the half-title page, with no date or inscription. Crisp, bright, clean; no owners' marks; as new.; Signed by Author. More
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. Third Printing. Paperback. Signed by the poet on the title page, with an inscription to a named individual. Clean and bright; except for modest shelfwear at corners of the soft cover, excellent.; Signed by Author. 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.; Signed by Author. 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
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. Softcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author, to a named individual, at the title page. Pages are clean and bright, though the last five leaves have short, closed edge tears and creases; spine is square and uncreased, soft cover modestly surface-worn and bearing..... More
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the half-title page. Pages bright and clean, spine square and uncreased; soft cover shows small taps and wrinkles at the spine ends, lines of surface rubbing and gentle, gray smudging..... More
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the author to a named individual on the half-title, and signed again without inscription on the title page. No owners' marks or wear, as new; jacket now protected in a clear sleeve.; Signed by Author. More
New York: Minotaur Books, 2009. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author at the title page with an inscription not addressed to a named recipient. Clean and bright; hard cover has a pressure mark on the bottom rear edge and mild shelfwear at corners and spine ends, and..... More
University of Iowa Press, 2004. Paperback. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp, bright and clean; as new.; Signed by Author. More
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. Paperback. Signed by the author at the half-title page with no date or inscription. Pages bright and clean; no owners' marks; spine square and uncreased; soft cover has a short fold at the bottom left rear corner and a bit of shelf rubbing at all..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with a presentation inscription to "a terrific writer and teacher" (the recipient is not named). Crisp, clean pages; hard cover modestly softened at the spine ends; dust jacket has long..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author with no date or inscription, this copy is crisp, bright, and clean as new, with the jacket protected in a clear archival sleeve.; Signed by Author. More
Bantam, 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the dedication page with no date or inscription; the signature is in a black felt-tip marker that has begun to bleed some yellow toning around the name and on the reverse of the page. Otherwise clean and bright; the quarter-cloth..... More
West Branch and Iowa City: The Cummington Press / The Nomad Press, 1971. Illustrated by Miller, Thomas G. Paperback. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the first (blank) page. No owners' marks; there is some wrinkling at the free edges of the last two pages..... More
Fredonia, New York, U.S.A. White Pine Press, 1997. Stated First Printing. Paperback. Signed by Author. More
St. Martin's Press, 1991. Second Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the front free endpaper. Crisp, bright pages; no owners' marks; binding tight, hard cover only mildly shelf-rubbed at the spine ends and corners. Jacket bears two spots of surface rubbing at the right rear, one at the upper..... More
Ecco Press, 1993. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page, with no date or inscription. Crisp and clean; no owners' marks; except for a touch of edgewear at the corners, as new; the unclipped jacket is now protected in a clear sleeve.; Signed by Author..... More
The Ecco Press, 2000. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed, and inscribed to a named individual, by the poet on the title page. Crisp, clean pages; hard cover shows only mild shelfwear at spine heel and corners; dust jacket is likewise lightly chipped at extremeties but remains unclipped, bright, and now protected..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. Stated First Printing. Cloth Hardcover. Signed by Lloyd Graham on the half-title page with no date or inscription. An enthusiastic prior owner's ink stamp appears at the top right of the first seven leaves and on the final free endpaper; the final endpaper..... More
Cleveland State University, 1993. Paperback. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the first page. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; spine square and uncreased; a very short, light fold at the bottom left rear corner of the soft cover and gentle rubbing around spine ends..... More
Summer House Books, 1997. Paperback. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription; spine square and uncreased, soft cover showing a short crease at the lower right rear and some rubbing around the edges with fading along the spine and some surface chipping at the..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1980. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the title page. Pages clean and bright; binding tight; hard cover has a tiny tap and wrinkle at the top front edge, mild softening at spine ends, and gentle shelf..... More