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.
University of Iowa Press, 2012. Paperback. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with no inscription or named recipient. Clean and bright; except for a few small lines of finish wear on the soft cover, excellent.; Signed by Author. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Illustrated by Sis, Peter. Second Printing. Softcover. 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...... More
West Branch, IA: Toothpaste Press, 1984. Illustrated by 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].; Signed by Author and by Illustrator. 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. Softcover. 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 and..... 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
Savannah: Frederic C. Beil, 2004. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the half-title page, with a presentation inscription to a named individual. Clean and bright; except for a few small pressure marks on the front of the dust jacket, as new.; Signed by Author. More
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. Hardcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author, to a named individual, on the half-title page. Crisp, clean pages; hard cover shows only very light wear at the spine heel; dust jacket shows a little shallow wrinkling at the top left rear corner and gentle shelfwear..... More
Riverhead Books, 2019. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author, with a dated (and somewhat cryptic) inscription to a named individual, on the title page. Clean and bright; except for gentle shelfwear at spine ends of the hard cover, a faint smudge at the top left front of the jacket..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 is..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 the dust jacket..... 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
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
Hammond, Louisiana: Louisiana Literature Press, 2012. Stated First Edition. Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page, with an inscription to a named individual. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; except for tiny spots of wear at the corners of the soft cover, as new. More
Brockport, New York: BOA Editions, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. 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 few..... More
Oxford, Mississippi: The Nautilus Publishing Compary, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author, without date or inscription, at the title page. New, with no wear or publisher's marks. 237pp.; Signed by Author. More
Fence Books, 2014. Paperback. Signed by the poet on the half-title page with no date or inscription. Clean and bright; except for gentle shelf rubbing at the corners and spine ends of the soft cover, excellent, nearly as new.; Signed by Author. More
New Rivers Press, 1997. Softcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the title page. Clean and bright; except for mild shelfwear at corners, excellent.; Signed by Author. More
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
Chicago: Fifth Star Press, 2013. First Printing. Paperback. Signed by Author. More
