Self Storage and Other Stories
New Rivers Press, 1997. Soft Cover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the title page. Clean and bright; except for mild shelfwear at corners, 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.
The Turk and My Mother
W. W. Norton & Co., 2004. First Printing. Hardcover. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the title page; binding is square and secure, hard cover rather softened and rubbed at the spine heel with some lighter rubbing at the spine head, otherwise clean..... More
Apollyon: A Novel
Iowa City: The Maecenas Press, 1985. Paperback. Showing slight rubbing to jacket edges and an "Autographed Copy" sticker at the front, this copy is otherwise clean, crisp, and bright, unmarked except for the author's signature and "Best Wishes" at the half-title page (no named dedicatee or date). More
The Chase
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988. Hard Cover. Very faint shelving wear to corners of jacket, heel corners of boards; otherwise immaculate, clean, bright, crisp. Inscribed to named individual at front free endpaper and dated by author; also signed by author and identified by author as "Author's Copy" at..... More
Bread Without Sugar: Poems
W. W. Norton & Co., 1992. First Printing. Hard Cover. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp and clean except for a few scattered spots of foxing on the page block edges; no owners' marks; hard cover only slightly rubbed at the spine..... More
Night Watch
Ace Hardcover, 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the title page. Clean and bright; hard cover shows moderate shelfwear at corners and spine ends, and jacket bears one small chip at each of the right front corners and mild rubbing at..... More
The Sky People
New York: Tor, 2006. First Printing. Hard Cover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the title page. Clean and bright except for a small yellow spot on the final free endpaper; jacket shows a few small, round pressure marks on the rear; otherwise excellent. More
In the Courts of the Crimson Kings
Tor Books, 2008. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the title page. Crisp and clean except for a very small felt-tip mark on the bottom edge of the book and an area of surface abrasions and sticky residue on the final endpaper;..... More
Papirni novac Srbije i Jugoslavije (Paper Money of Serbia and Yugoslavia)
Beograd: Privately Published, 1996. Paperback. Languages: Introduction repeated in Serbo-Croatian, English, German; all individual bill data are in Serbo-Croatian. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author at the page preceding the title page. Clean and bright; spine square and uncreased; soft cover has a tap and wrinkle at the spine..... More
From Tall Grass Prairies to Huge Grainfields: 150 Year History of A Grundy County Pioneer Family, Farming & Producing and Trading Livestock
Grundy County, Iowa: Self Published, 2006. Paperback. Signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the second page. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks; spine square and uncreased, soft cover only very lightly rubbed at the corners, otherwise excellent. 148pp. More
The Burgess Boys
Random House, 2013. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a bound-in signature page before the half-title page; no date, inscription, or named recipient. Clean, with no owners' marks; hard cover a bit softened at the spine heel, jacket lightly crimped at spine ends with a very slight ripple..... More
Stoneboat, and Other Poems
Cumberland, Iowa: The Pterodactyl Press, 1988. Paperback. Signed and dated by the poet on the title page, with an inscription to a named individual. One of 400 on Mohawk letterpress in soft cover. Clean, bright pages; the soft cover bears two short, reddish marks along the left front, one pale..... More
The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa
New York: Doubleday, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author, with no date or inscription, at the title page. Clean, bright pages except for a few pale marks on the front free endpaper and a reddish smudge on the bottom edge of the book; square, secure binding;..... More
Kyrie
Final Thursday Press, 2004. Limited Edition. Staple-bound Softcover. Signed by the author without inscription on the title page and numbered 157 of 500 on the colophon. No owners' marks; pages are clean; stapled binding is secure; there is some faint age-toning around the spine, otherwise nearly as new. More
Gardenias
Milkweed Editions, 2005. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page with a celebratory inscription to a named individual. Clean except for light yellow handling stains and a few very small inky spots on the outside edges of the page block; hard cover shows some shelfwear, particularly at spine..... More
The Girls on the Roof
Cincinnati, OH: Turning Point, 2009. Paperback. Signed by the author at the half-title page with no date or inscription. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; mild rubbing and curling at the right front corners and gentle rubbing at spine ends, otherwise excellent. More
Lost Lake
Seattle: Owl Creek Press, 1986. Paperback. Signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by the author at the title page, this copy shows a little gentle handling smudging to the textured surfaces of the cover and tiny corner creases at the lower free corners of the cover; the pages..... More
Out of This World: A Woman's Life Among the Amish
Viking Adult, 1995. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp and clean except for a prior owner's ink stamp on the front free endpaper, gentle edgewear at the bottom corners of the hardcover, and two very light folds at the..... More
Farmscape
North Liberty, IA: Ice Cube Press, 2012. Paperback. Signed by Mary Swander, Laura Sweeney, J. Harley McIlrath, Mary Klotzbach, and Jason Arbogast on and across from the title page; some signatures are accompanied by inscriptions to a named individual. Crisp, bright, and clean; just a hint of shelfwear at the..... More
Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir
Twelve, 2012. Hardcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author on the title page. No owners' marks or wear; as new. More
Crosses: Poems 1992-1998
Stop Press, 2006. Maxwell, Liz. Paperback. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp, clean pages; square, uncreased spine; soft cover shows a faint rectangle of adhesive stain at the lower rear, pale gray handling spots across the rear, and some rubbing along the..... More
Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1975. Hard Cover. Signed, dated, and inscribed to another author by the author at the front free endpaper, this presentation copy is crisp, bright, and clean; the hard cover shows only gentle shelf rubbing at the corners, the jacket some wear and minor..... More
Reckoner
Wesleyan, 1986. Stated First Edition. Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Stated first edition. Clean and bright; except for a scattering of foxing along the head edge and very light rubbing at the left rear corners and spine heel, well-kept and lovely..... More