Signed books and how you got them!

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Gazman

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kingricefan said:
Aside from limited editions that I have, I was one of the lucky ones who was able to go to the Missoula event for Sleeping Beauties and obtain a signed copy there. I was in a small town north of Seattle at a Goodwill when I found a mint condition unread hardback of Insomnia that was signed (it's a legit siggy). Paid $1.99 for it! I still wonder how exactly that signed book made it to a goodwill in a small Washington town. I bought a signed 4th printing hardback of The Bachman Books at Powell's in Portland, OR. A good friend of mine works at Starbuck's corporate headquarters in Seattle and she was able to get a signed copy of Lisey's Story and she gave it to me.
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$1.99!!!!!:barf:

How did you approach the cashier without giving away the value??? "I'd like to buy this completely worthless book" as sweat runs down the side of your face.
I've found a few first edition hardbacks in second hand stores and charity shops always hoping to find a signed one and all my family and friends keep an eye out too.
 
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Neesy said:
:m_yesss: Agree!


Full Dark, No Stars - Josh got a copy of that at the book swap (not signed) but he was happy - I think he traded his Sleeping Beauties for it, with Robert Gray.

Did not get a chance to talk as much with Marsha in Maine (compared to Toronto), as she was the star of the show (sort of, well her and the rest of the VIPs) - I wonder if we had the next King Kon in Maine again how many would be able to make it? Of course that is two years away so hard to say at this point.

West coast is starting to look good too with kingricefan and Baby Blue both being out there.
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Two years time? Maybe I should start saving for a flight across the Atlantic!
 
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Neesy said:
:m_yesss: Agree!


Full Dark, No Stars - Josh got a copy of that at the book swap (not signed) but he was happy - I think he traded his Sleeping Beauties for it, with Robert Gray.

Did not get a chance to talk as much with Marsha in Maine (compared to Toronto), as she was the star of the show (sort of, well her and the rest of the VIPs) - I wonder if we had the next King Kon in Maine again how many would be able to make it? Of course that is two years away so hard to say at this point.

West coast is starting to look good too with kingricefan and Baby Blue both being out there.
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Tery is here too!
 
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Is this subject only about King books? I never got one of them signed. But I did once obtain a signed book from my son’s favourite author.

My son loved Robert Munsch stories. He wanted to write him a letter, so with my help, he did. I also included a letter from me. One of my older kids absolutely HATED books. All books. During story time at school he would sit with his eyes closed and his fingers in his ears. One day while sitt8ng like that his friend was laughing so hard at the story the teacher was reading that he accidentally knocked my son over. His pulled his fingers out of his ears to catch himself and heard the teacher say “and the principal was in his underpants”. He begged the teacher to start the story over....and she refused. At library time teacher told librarian she had found a book my son liked. Thomas’s Snowsuit by Robert Munsch. So the librarian read it, then allowed him to take it home for the week. And he would not bring it back. Lol. Eventually, we got him to read a different Munsch book. And then he read every Munsch book he could find. Eventually he became an avid reader and has even done some writing.

I had hoped my young son would get a letter reply from Mr, Munsch, but understand, authors cannot answer every letter. He did get a form letter. And with it, a personally autographed book.

Unfortunately, he loaned the book to his nephew and never got it back.
 
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AnnaMarie said:
Is this subject only about King books? I never got one of them signed. But I did once obtain a signed book from my son’s favourite author.

My son loved Robert Munsch stories. He wanted to write him a letter, so with my help, he did. I also included a letter from me. One of my older kids absolutely HATED books. All books. During story time at school he would sit with his eyes closed and his fingers in his ears. One day while sitt8ng like that his friend was laughing so hard at the story the teacher was reading that he accidentally knocked my son over. His pulled his fingers out of his ears to catch himself and heard the teacher say “and the principal was in his underpants”. He begged the teacher to start the story over....and she refused. At library time teacher told librarian she had found a book my son liked. Thomas’s Snowsuit by Robert Munsch. So the librarian read it, then allowed him to take it home for the week. And he would not bring it back. Lol. Eventually, we got him to read a different Munsch book. And then he read every Munsch book he could find. Eventually he became an avid reader and has even done some writing.

I had hoped my young son would get a letter reply from Mr, Munsch, but understand, authors cannot answer every letter. He did get a form letter. And with it, a personally autographed book.

Unfortunately, he loaned the book to his nephew and never got it back.
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I have a copy of The Fireman by Joe Hill but it's signed by Srbo :biggrin2:
 
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Gazman said:
$1.99!!!!!:barf:

How did you approach the cashier without giving away the value??? "I'd like to buy this completely worthless book" as sweat runs down the side of your face.
I've found a few first edition hardbacks in second hand stores and charity shops always hoping to find a signed one and all my family and friends keep an eye out too.
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Actually, that was pretty much how it was when I found the 1st printing mint condition hardback of Carrie at a used book store in north Seattle (store shall remain unnamed due to infliction of huge amount of embarrassment on their part). I found it in the regular used/new book area instead of in their glass cased area for rare books. Pulled it off of the shelf thinking it was a book club edition (as the early King books from Doubleday are the same size as bc editions), opened it up, saw the price on the dust jacket as $5.95 (at which point my heart began to pound harder), opened it up to the copyright page and see 'First Edition' printed there. I closed it, turned it over to see what the store's price sticker was going to say and saw $7.99! Man, I about passed out! I quickly walked to the front and stood in line waiting to pay with my heart pounding hard and my hands slightly shaking. All the time thinking that someone was going to come and cup me by my elbow and say 'I'm sorry, sir, but we've made a mistake in our pricing and need to add a couple of zero's to the end of that price.' I paid for it and almost ran out of the store! Then I thought 'Hey, just peel off the price sticker and take it back in to the 'book buying' area and see how much they'd give me for this near perfect copy of Carrie.....'. This particular book store had a 1st printing hardback copy of Carrie in the glass cased area before, were asking $700 for it and it was not even anywhere near as good as this copy was. I imagine that whoever the book buyer was the day it was brought in to be sold to the store thought it was a book club edition. Their loss, my gain. :D
 
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kingricefan said:
Actually, that was pretty much how it was when I found the 1st printing mint condition hardback of Carrie at a used book store in north Seattle (store shall remain unnamed due to infliction of huge amount of embarrassment on their part). I found it in the regular used/new book area instead of in their glass cased area for rare books. Pulled it off of the shelf thinking it was a book club edition (as the early King books from Doubleday are the same size as bc editions), opened it up, saw the price on the dust jacket as $5.95 (at which point my heart began to pound harder), opened it up to the copyright page and see 'First Edition' printed there. I closed it, turned it over to see what the store's price sticker was going to say and saw $7.99! Man, I about passed out! I quickly walked to the front and stood in line waiting to pay with my heart pounding hard and my hands slightly shaking. All the time thinking that someone was going to come and cup me by my elbow and say 'I'm sorry, sir, but we've made a mistake in our pricing and need to add a couple of zero's to the end of that price.' I paid for it and almost ran out of the store! Then I thought 'Hey, just peel off the price sticker and take it back in to the 'book buying' area and see how much they'd give me for this near perfect copy of Carrie.....'. This particular book store had a 1st printing hardback copy of Carrie in the glass cased area before, were asking $700 for it and it was not even anywhere near as good as this copy was. I imagine that whoever the book buyer was the day it was brought in to be sold to the store thought it was a book club edition. Their loss, my gain. :D
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Wow! :thumbs_up::thumbs_up::shake:
 
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I have two books signed by Stephen King.
I got them when I was invited for a kitchen tour and homemade cookies. :biggrin2:
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...here, I gotcha a t-shirt.....
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