This One Tree
New Issues Press, 2006. Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Clean and bright; except for very light shelfwear at the corners of the soft cover, excellent. More
Signed by Author
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.
From the Devotions: Poems
Graywolf Press, 2002. Soft Cover. Signed by the poet at the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp, clean pages; square, uncreased spine; soft cover has mild rubbing at spine ends, corners, and bottom edges and some wrinkling at the left edge of the "National Book Award Finalist" adhesive..... More
The Son of Quick Flicks: Clerihews by Louis Phillips
Prologue Press, 2005. Limited Edition. Staple-bound Softcover. Signed by the poet, without inscription, on the title page; printed in an edition of 100, of which this copy is no. 52. Clean, crisp and bright; no owners' marks or wear; as new. More
The Adjustment
Counterpoint, 2011. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; a bump at the spine heel has caused wrinkling and some shelf rubbing on both hard cover and dust jacket, and the spine head also shows..... More
Homegoing
New York: Ballantine Books, 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page, with no date, recipient name, or inscription. Pages crisp and clean except for a faint erasure ghost on the front free endpaper, a short, thin brown stain on the right edges of pp.199-238, and..... More
Oppenheimer is Watching Me: A Memoir
University of Iowa, 2007. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp and clean except for a few short, light creases at the spine heel and at the top free corners of the dustjacket; otherwise excellent, nearly as new. More
Storms of Victory (Janissaries III)
Ace Hardcover, 1987. First Printing. Hard Cover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the title page. Pages crisp and clean, if lightly toned in the margins; binding tight; hard cover only lightly rubbed at the heel edges and spine head; jacket shows a little shallow..... More
Lost (The Magic Thief, Book 2)
HarperCollins, 2009. Hardcover. Signed by the author and inscribed to a named individual with a secret message encoded in runes. Picture available on request, but you must do the translation yourself. Clean and bright; hard cover bears modest rubbing at spine ends, jacket a pair of shallow surface wrinkles at..... More
The Magic Thief
HarperCollins, 2008. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author and inscribed to a named individual with a secret message encoded in runes. Picture available on request, but you must do the translation all by yourself. Crisp, clean pages; hard cover bears modest shelfwear at spine ends and front corners, jacket..... More
Nightcrawlers ("Nameless" Detective Novels)
Forge Books, 2005. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author on the title page with no inscription or named recipient; clean and bright; very light shelfwear at the spine heel and bottom corners of hard cover and dust jacket, otherwise excellent, with jacket unclipped and protected in a...... More
The House of the Solitary Maggot (Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys, part two)
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by the author across from the title page. Pages bright and clean except for light foxing along the head and foreedges and light ink spray on the heel edge; no..... More
Vessels: A Love Story
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page, with a personal inscription to a named individual. Crisp and bright; modest softening at the spine heel and a line of dark spots in the front gutter of the hard cover, a shallow..... More
Doors Open
London: Orion Books, 2008. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page, with no date or inscription. Crisp, clean pages, if lightly tanned in the margins; square, secure binding, hard cover rather softened at the spine heel and shelf-rubbed at spine ends and corners, otherwise sound. Dust jacket shows..... More
The Art of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hyperion, 1996. Hard Cover. Folio. Signed, dated, and inscribed to two named individuals by the author at the bottom of the illustration following the front free endpaper. Crisp, bright, and clean; except for the barest hint of shelf rubbing at the spine heel of hard cover and dust jacket, as..... More
J. Eden: A Novel
University Press of New England, 1996. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the half-title page. Clean and bright; square, tight binding; jacket shows some gentle sunning along the spine and a light wrinkle at the top rear, otherwise excellent, now protected in a clear..... More
Preparing for Spring
Arlen House, 2007. Soft Cover. Signed and inscribed by the author to a named individual on the title page. Pages are clean, without owners' marks; binding is square and tight; the soft cover shows modest rubbing at the free corners, otherwise excellent. More
Horace Afoot
Macmurray & Beck, 1997. First Printing. Hard Cover. Signed by the author at the half-title page with no date or inscription. Crisp, bright, and clean; except for very gentle shelf rubbing at the spine ends of hard cover and dust jacket, as new. More
The Altruists
Viking, 2019. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author, with an inscription to a named individual, on the title page. Clean and bright; no ownership marks or wear; as new. More
Built in a Day
New York: Doubleday, 2003. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed to a fellow writer by the author at the title page, this copy is crisp, bright, and clean as new, with the jacket now protected in a clear sleeve. More
Dark Iowa, Bright Iowa
Concord, California: A E Press, 1994. Gerberding, Rodger. Paperback. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; there is a very small, closed tear at the bottom front edge with a light attending crease, and the spine shows gentle fading, otherwise excellent. 158pp. Science fiction, weird fiction, and horror set in the..... More
The People in His Life
New York: Stein and Day, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the front free endpaper with a lengthy note to author John Leggett, dated December 1984. The pages of this copy are crisp, bright, and clean, the binding square and tight; the hard cover shows a line..... More
Heart's Migration
Tia Chucha Press, 2009. Paperback. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the first (title) page. Clean and bright; just a touch of shelfwear at the bottom corners of the soft cover, otherwise as new. More
The Newspapers of Henry County, Iowa
Mount Pleasant, Iowa: Privately Printed, 1944. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author at the title page with a brief "Holiday Greetings" but no named recipient with this inscription. Some foxing along the foreedges bearing photographic plates and at hinges, but pages remain crisp and bear no owners' marks; full..... More