Signed Books

[kiaracaughfield]

I don't have any signed book yet but I want them. I recently started reading books and don't know much about the authors. I also don't know how people get passion of reading books and collecting the signatured books of their favourite authors. I also want to feel the same.....

[xg4bx]

I will actually be adding to my signed books tonight. I discovered one of my favorite authors, Larry Correia, will be reading/signing his Monster Hunter International books an hour away from me so I'll be taking a drive.

[Nancy Fulda]

One of the most delightful surprises of my life involved ordering Lois McMaster Bujold's The Hallowed Hunt on Amazon, only to discover that the copy I received in the mail had been autographed.

I contacted Lois through Baen's Bar, and she said it was probably an extra copy from a bookstore autograph session. Apparently, even signed copies are sometimes sent back to the publisher and redistributed. Who knew?

[graycyn]

Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda

One of the most delightful surprises of my life involved ordering Lois McMaster Bujold's The Hallowed Hunt on Amazon, only to discover that the copy I received in the mail had been autographed.

I contacted Lois through Baen's Bar, and she said it was probably an extra copy from a bookstore autograph session. Apparently, even signed copies are sometimes sent back to the publisher and redistributed. Who knew?

That's the sort of thing that might get me sentimental enough to keep a signed book. I love good find stories!

I have a first printing, first edition of "A Game of Thrones" in lovely condition that I picked up for $1 way back when off a library's sale shelf. I found lots of nice, once read, nearly new hardcovers with dustjackets there, but that was the only one that was somewhat rare.

I know I should probably sell, now that it's an HBO series and "hot", but I haven't quite gotten there yet. My best book find ever though.

Edit: My find was not signed though! Congrats on yours, I know I'd have been thrilled if it happened to me, fun stuff!

[whitearrow]

I do value the signed books I have, but more as a recollection of meeting the author than anything else. They include Jim Lovell, Sister Helen Prejean, and John Barrowman -- now there's a group of people who's names aren't often seen in a sentence together

[Belfaborac]

I had a number of signed books, dating back a couple of decades to a time when I still thought that kind of thing was cool. They read the same as the unsigned ones though and in any case it's been a long time since I saw a point in such things. Now I have none, I think, since I gave away the vast majority of my physical books not that long ago.

[The Other Pilot]

Thirty years ago I went to my first writer's conference, and Michael Shaara, author of Killer Angels, the historical novel of the battle of Gettysburg was there.

It was a small group sitting out under a tree, and he was a quiet, shy person. He told of standing on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg and seeing a vision of Pickett's charge. He was there on a family vacation and had only written short stories and unsuccessful literary fiction. He was moved to research and later write the story in way that has made it come alive for two generations of readers. He won the Pulitzer Prize.

I have the first edition copy he signed that day.

Ed Baldwin

[xg4bx]

Originally Posted by The Other Pilot

Thirty years ago I went to my first writer's conference, and Michael Shaara, author of Killer Angels, the historical novel of the battle of Gettysburg was there.

It was a small group sitting out under a tree, and he was a quiet, shy person. He told of standing on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg and seeing a vision of Pickett's charge. He was there on a family vacation and had only written short stories and unsuccessful literary fiction. He was moved to research and later write the story in way that has made it come alive for two generations of readers. He won the Pulitzer Prize.

I have the first edition copy he signed that day.

Ed Baldwin

That's an awesome story.