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.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Hardcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed to named individuals by the author at the title page. Clean and bright; a hint of shelf rubbing at the spine ends of the hard cover and one long, light fold across the top front, one at the bottom front, otherwise..... More
New York: Ace Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the title page; no date given. Clean; hard cover and dust jacket are modestly softened at the spine head and show mild crimping and rubbing at spine ends and corners; otherwise..... More
New York: Ace Books, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the title page; no date given. Clean and bright; hard cover is bumped with some concentric wrinkling at the bottom right front corner and shows mild rubbing at corners, and dust..... More
New York: Ace Books, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the title page; no date given. Clean; hard cover has a very light tap at the top front causing a small flattened wrinkle near the top front corner, and spine ends..... More
Toby Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription, this copy is crisp, bright, and clean; except for a little shelf rubbing at the lower free corners of the dust jacket, as new. Jacket is now protected in a new..... More
Self-Published, 2013. Paperback. Signed by the author, and inscribed to a named individual with the date 2014, on the half title page. Crisp, clean, and bright as new. More
Iowa Falls, IA: CSS Publications, 1984. Paperback. Signed, dated, and inscribed fondly to a named individual at the reverse of the first page, this copy shows only a faint hint of creasing along the rightmost of the rear cover and a tiny chip at the upper edge of the rear..... More
New York: Moore Black Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Signed and inscribed by author, to a named individual, at half-title page. Clean and bright; except for modest rubbing at corners and spine ends, excellent. 75pp. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Sis, Peter. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Signed by the author/illustrator, with a small doodle, at a blank page facing the start of the story; no date, inscription, or named recipient. Pages are bright and clean, spine square and uncreased; soft cover has a thin..... More
West Branch, IA: Toothpaste Press, 1984. Mead, Stuart. Paperback. Signed by the author and the illustrator on the colophon, and numbered 421 / 500. Crisp and clean; except for mild sunning along the spine, nearly as new. [20pp]. More
The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription, this is a new copy with no signs of wear, the jacket now protected in a clear sleeve. Morty Sklar is a principal figure in the Actualist..... More
The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1990. Soft Cover. Signed and inscribed to named individuals by the editor at the title page. Pages are bright and clean except for a prior owner's raised seal at the half-title page; spine square and uncreased; soft cover shows only mild rubbing at corners..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the front free endpaper. Clean, with no owners' marks; hard cover and dust jacket show mild edgewear at corners and spine heel, and jacket bears two thin scratches across the lower front..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author, with no date or inscription, on a tipped-in page following the front endpaper. Clean except for moderate shelfwear at the spine heel of the hard cover, a patch of nearly clear discoloration at the upper left rear of the..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed twice by the author; one signature, with no date or inscription, is on a tipped-in page following the front endpaper; the other is directly on the title page with a specifically named recipient in the inscription. Clean except for three small, stray..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author to a named individual at the title page. Hard cover is modestly softened and rubbed at the bottom corners and spine heel; jacket bears a few shallow creases and some edgewear around corners and..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Clean except for a small white smudge at the bottom edge of the front board and three pale brown fingerprints across the middle front of the dust jacket; otherwise, only..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the title page; clean and bright, with only modest shelf rubbing at corners and spine ends of hard cover and dust jacket and two curved creases at the top rear of the..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Pages crisp and clean except for a faint pencil ghost and a very small abrasion on the front endpapers, a band of adhesion along the bound edges of the rear endpapers, and conspicuous age-toning in the margins throughout; binding..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Large 4to. Signed, dated, and inscribed to two named individuals by the author at the title page. Crisp, bright, and clean; except for occasional, light taps along the heel edges of the hard cover and tiny chips at the bottom corners of..... More
Pantheon Books, 1993. First American Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author at the title page, with no inscription. Crisp, bright, clean pages except for a prior owner's raised seal at the half-title page; the binding is square and tight, the hard cover clean and excellent, the unclipped jacket..... More
Anchor, 2000. Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp, clean pages, if modestly age-toned throughout; square, uncreased spine; soft cover bears lines of light surface wear along the sides of the spine, a few short wrinkles at the spine heel, and mild..... More
New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author, to a named individual, at the title page. Pages crisp and clean; binding square and secure; hard cover shows only mild softening at the spine ends, a few little pressure marks around the board edges..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. Third Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author, with a brief inscription to a named individual, on the half-title page. Clean and bright; the hard cover shows mild shelfwear at spine heel and corners, the dust jacket a little shallow creasing around the spine head..... More
Brockport, New York: BOA Editions, 1980. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed and inscribed by the author, to a named individual, at the title page. Pages crisp and clean except for a single, very small spot in the left margin of the colophon page; spine square and uncreased; there are a...... More
