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Old 10-23-03, 04:17 PM
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All are TRUE 1st edition/1st printings:
  • Angels & Demons signed by Dan Brown
  • The Da Vinci Code signed by Dan Brown
  • The Amber Room signed by Steve Berry
  • In The Company of Heroes signed by Michael Durant and notated "Super 64" and "NSDQ"
  • Plum Island signed by Nelson DeMille

Edited to add Plum Island because I forgot it.


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Old 10-23-03, 04:23 PM
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Originally posted by immortal_zeus
[*]The Amber Room signed by Steve Perry
I love this book!

The whole history of Journey is here - how the band started, how Steve ended up with them (wild story!), when they broke up, got back together, and more!

It's like a marathon Behind The Music episode.

The chapter about the real meaning behgind the song Loving, Touching, Squeezing is worth the price of the book itself!

Rock on!
Old 10-23-03, 04:30 PM
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I only have a few books that are signed by the author, and none of them are really popular.

Serving Them Right signed by Laura Liswood
Population and World Power signed by Katherine Organski
The End of a Golden Age: Higher Education in a Steady State signed by Edward Gross

I'm sure I have a few more, but I just can't find them among my collection at the moment.
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Originally posted by BoatDrinks
I love this book!

The whole history of Journey is here - how the band started, how Steve ended up with them (wild story!), when they broke up, got back together, and more!

It's like a marathon Behind The Music episode.

The chapter about the real meaning behgind the song Loving, Touching, Squeezing is worth the price of the book itself!

Rock on!
By the way, stop leaving messages on my phone and singing that you'll come to me with open arms.

Old 10-24-03, 05:26 PM
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only one..

"The Serpent and the Rainbow" signed by Wade Davis. He came to my university on a lecture tour to speak on voodoo, etc and signed some books afterward.
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Lies and the Lying Liars etc signed by Al Franken. Nice guy.
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Off the top of my head I can think of only two (2) books that I have signed:

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (1st Edition) -- personalized

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken

The one (1) book I would love to get signed is All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President by James Carville & Mary Matalin.
Old 11-06-03, 01:51 PM
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Aside from all of the limited edition books I have from Stephen King that are signed I have a few others of note:

The first Far Side collection signed by Gary Larson (when it was released)
A Bloom County book signed by Berkley Breathed
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books signed by Douglas Adams
Secret Strangers signed by Thomas Tessier
Old 11-07-03, 04:03 AM
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While I read this thread, it occured to me that the only signed books I have are of the comic strip variation (not that there's anything wrong with that). I have Ed The Happy Clown by Chester Brown, The Poor Bastard by Joe Matt, and a For Better of For Worse collection by Lynn Johnson. Also, several years back I bought an issue of American Splendar (the one with Crumb's fresh bread story) and after a couple of months I noticed that it had been signed by Harvey Pekar inside the front cover.
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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (personalized)
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman (1st edition hardcover)
Angels & Visitations by Neil Gaiman (1st edition limited hardcover)
Kiss and Makeup by Gene Simmons

The 3 Gaiman ones were obtained by me and are personalized, the Simmons one was obtained for my by a friend at one of the 3 tour stops of Simmons to promote the book.

Then there's WAY too many comics to list that I have signed.

Peter David will be at the spring Motor Ciry Comic Convention next year, so I'll be getting a lot of novels and comics signed then as well.
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Originally posted by travlr
If Chins Could Kill - Bruce Campbell "seems a popular one so far"

Adventures of Samurai Cat - Mark E. Rogers
Sword of Samurai Cat - Mark E. Rogers
Samurai Cat Goes To Hell - Mark E. Rogers
Zorachus - Mark E. Rogers
Blood + Pearls - Mark E. Rogers
Jagutai and Lilitu - Mark E. Rogers
Night Of the Long Knives - Mark E. Rogers
The Dead - Mark E. Rogers

lol it pays to be friends with an author. I cant wait till next week going to a Mick Foley book signing so I can add more signed stuff.
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Tietam Brown - Mick Foley
Halloween Hijinks - Mick Foley
Flawed Dogs - Berke Breathed
A Wish for Wings That Work - Berke Breathed
The Last Basselope - Berke Breathed
Blood Canticle - Ann Rice
The Butlerian Jihad - Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson
The Machine Crusade - Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson

Also a for a good place to pickup signed books without all the jacked up prices of ebay checkout http://www.olssons.com/cgi-cart/signed.pl

They do a ton of signings here in the DC area and usually sell leftover signed copies for a decent price.
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Originally posted by immortal_zeus
All are TRUE 1st edition/1st printings:
  • Angels & Demons signed by Dan Brown
  • The Da Vinci Code signed by Dan Brown
  • The Amber Room signed by Steve Berry
  • In The Company of Heroes signed by Michael Durant and notated "Super 64" and "NSDQ"
  • Plum Island signed by Nelson DeMille

Edited to add Plum Island because I forgot it.


I'm jealous, especially of the DeMille autograph. Did you get to talk with him much? Did he take questions or just sit and sign? Just curious what he was like. Actually its funny you have Dan Brown listed there as well, because he lists Plum Island as one of his favorite books on his web site.
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Originally posted by Cedar
I'm jealous, especially of the DeMille autograph. Did you get to talk with him much? Did he take questions or just sit and sign? Just curious what he was like. Actually its funny you have Dan Brown listed there as well, because he lists Plum Island as one of his favorite books on his web site.
No need to be jealous; I didn't meet any of the authors.

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Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
No Ordinary Time - Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Slander - Ann Coulter
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I am pretty proud of mine:

"Misery" by Stephen King inscribed to me with special note.

"From A Buick 8" by Stephen King. Signed, Limited, number edition also signed by artist Bernie Wrightson. Cemetery Dance Publications.

"Timeline" by Michael Crichton. Signed, Limited edition from the Franklin Mint.

"Taggerung" by Brian Jacques

"Dark Carnival" by Ray Bradbury. Signed, limited edition. Also signed by Clive Barker (afterword).

"First Meetings" by Orscon Scott Card.

"The Ragamuffin Gospel" by Brennan Manning

on its way:

"Walpuski's Typewriter" Frank Darabont, signed limited edition. Cemetery Dance Publications.

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I have a few - but my favorite is a coffee-table sized hardback of "Repent Harliquien Said the Tick Tock Man" signed by Harlan Ellison.
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"Death at Bishop's Keep" by Robin Paige, pseudonym for Bill & Susan Albert

"Hank the Cowdog & The Case of the Halloween Ghost" by John R. Erickson

"Tradition: Bo Schembechler's Michigan Memories" by Bo Schembechler
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Let me think....

A Box of Matches - Nicholson Baker
Basket Case - Carl Hiaasen

...and others that escape me at the moment...
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George Carlin - Brain Droppings

Chuck Pahlaniuk - Choke, Survivor
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Some I can think of, obtained in person except where noted, listed by author:

Paul Auster:
Oracle Night (1st printing HC)
Collected Poems (1st printing HC)

Russell Banks:
Affliction (later printing trade SC)

Bruce Campbell:
If Chins Could Kill (1st printing HC)

Patricia Cornwell:
Black Notice (1st printing HC)

Don DeLillo:
Amazons (written under a pseudonym) (1st printing HC)
The Names (1st printing HC)
White Noise (1st printing, later trade SC edition)
The Body Artist (1st printing HC)
Cosmopolis (1st printing HC)

Bret Easton Ellis:
Less Than Zero (1st printing HC)
Rules of Attraction (1st printing HC)
American Psycho (1st printing SC)
The Informers (1st printing HC)
Glamorama (1st printing HC)

Neil Gaiman (only including prose, not graphic novels):
Angels & Visitations (purchased autographed, 1st printing HC)
Good Omens (also signed by Terry Pratchett, later printing trade SC)
Neverwhere (1st printing HC)
Smoke & Mirrors (1st printing HC)
Stardust (purchased autographed, 1st printing HC)
The Sandman Companion (1st printing HC)
999 (1st printing HC)
American Gods (1st printing HC)
Coraline (1st printing HC)

Dick Morris
Behind the Oval Office (later printing HC)
Off With Their Heads! (1st printing HC)

Bill O'Reilly
The O'Reilly Factor (1st printing HC)

Chuck Palahniuk:
Fight Club (1st printing HC)
Survivor (1st printing HC)
Invisible Monsters (later printing SC)
Choke (1st printing HC)
Lullaby (1st printing HC)
Fugitives & Refugees (1st printing HC)
Diary (1st printing HC)

Terry Pratchett
Good Omens (also signed by Neil Gaiman, later printing trade SC)
Monstrous Regiment (1st printing HC)

Salman Rushdie:
Fury (1st printing HC)

Dana Spiotta:
Lightning Field (1st printing HC)

Amy Tan:
The Bonesetter's Daughter (1st printing HC)

Donna Tartt:
The Secret History (1st printing HC)
The Little Friend (1st printing HC)

Michael Tolkin:
Under Radar (1st printing HC)

David Foster Wallace:
The Girl With the Curious Hair (later printing SC)
Infinite Jest (later printing SC)
Everything & More (1st printing HC)

Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting (later printing trade SC)
Porno (1st printing HC)

I'm sure there's a bunch I'm forgetting. There also a boatload of comics and graphic novels that I don't even have organized anymore.

DJ

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Midwinter---Matthew Sturges
Year of the Hare--Mark Finn
Gods New and Used--Mark Finn
Beneath the Skin--Matthew Sturges
Voices of Thunder--Chris Roberson
Cybermancy Incorporated--Chris Roberson
Set the Seas on Fire--Chris Roberson
Down the Mysterly River-- Bill Willingham
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Three Geeks vol 1-3---Rich Koslowski
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Stone Cold Steve Austin's The Stone Cold Truth. JR signed it too.
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added a bunch more since my last post

The Rising - Brian Keene
Fear Of Gravity - Brian Keene
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
Mr Paradise - Elmore Leonard
Wire Mesh Mothers - Elizabeth Massie
All The Rage - F Paul Wilson
Clickers - J F Gonzalez
The Organ Donor - Matthew Warner
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