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.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Illustrated by Shenton, Edward. Sixteenth Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, with no date or inscription. Scattered foxing to preliminaries, prior owner's name and bookplate at front fixed endpaper, prior seller's label (from Gainesville) on final fixed endpaper, and..... More
Hyperion, 1996. Hardcover. 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 new; jacket..... More
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
Arlen House, 2007. Softcover. 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.; Signed by Author. More
Macmurray & Beck, 1997. First Printing. Hardcover. 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.; Signed by Author. More
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.; Signed by Author. More
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.; Signed by Author. More
Concord, California: A E Press, 1994. Illustrated by 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..... More
Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2007. First Printing. Paperback. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author to a named individual on the title page. Crisp, bright, clean; no owners' marks; as new. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Later Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page, with no date or inscription. Crisp, clean pages with no owners' marks; the hard cover is softened at spine ends and shows mild shelfwear at corners, otherwise excellent. The dust jacket is noticeably crimped..... More
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
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.; Signed by Author. More
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
Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2001. First Printing. Paperback. Signed by the poet on the title page, with no date or inscription. Clean, crisp, bright; except for a light touch of wear at the spine ends, as new.; Signed by Author. More
Nicosia, Cyprus: The Aeolos Press, 2006. Softcover. Signed and inscribed with a full original poem in Ken Rosen's hand on the title page. No owners' marks; pages are clean, crisp and bright; binding is square and tight; the soft cover is very gently rubbed around the edges, and there is..... More
Spuyten Duyvil, 2021. Paperback. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with a warm presentation inscription. Crisp, bright, clean; no owners' marks; as new.; Signed by Author. More
The Sheep Meadow Press, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Signed, and inscribed to a named individual, by the author on the title page. Crisp and clean; no owners' marks; as new.; Signed by Author. More
Concord, California: Small Poetry Press, 1998. Paperback. Signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the title page. Clean and bright except for a tiny brown spot in the right margin of one page and another at the bottom front of the soft cover; saddle-stapled binding..... More
Vitoria de Santo Antao-PE, 2003. Paperback. Signed, dated, and inscribed to named individuals by the author at the first page. Clean and bright; spine square and uncreased; soft cover has a tap and wrinkle at the spine head and light rubbing around the heel edges, otherwise excellent. 176pp; color illustrations.;..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover with Slipcase. Crisp, bright, and clean except for a hint of shelf rubbing at the spine heel of the full cloth hard cover as well as three small, dark spots along the head edge of the publisher's original slipcase..... More
McMillen Publishing, 2005. Paperback. Signed and dated by the author on the first (title) page, with a short note but no named recipient (just "For all of our service friends!"). Clean and bright; no owners' marks; a thin, short crease at the lower right front, a row of small pressure..... More
Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by Sylvan T. Runkel on the first (title) page, with the inscription "Happy days in the woods and best wishes!"; there is no named recipient, and the book bears no owners' marks. This is the original edition, formatted in two columns per..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 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 or wear; jacket is unclipped and now protected in a clear sleeve; as new.; Signed by Author. More
Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Clean and bright except for a fingertip-sized scuff at the left front of the jacket and a faint fingerprint (more visible than the scuff) on the right front; modest shelfwear at the..... More
