Get your book signed!

[formality hater]

I would have liked(craved,rather) to get my autograph book signed by Mercator,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Beethoven.
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Whom would you like(or would have liked) to ask for an autograph, and which is the most treasured one you already own?

[Niamh]

J.M.Synge and J.B.Yeats.
Came across a copy of the Aran Islands by J.M.Synge, first edition, signed by both of them. Unfortunately i didnt have the €17000 to buy it.

[Pensive]

Hmmm that's an interesting question but I guess from no one! Makes me pretty boring I guess. But that's the way I am, twenty four hours everyday I am! (Oops I have started to use this phrase everywhere without considering where it fits! But it probably does here! :D)

[NickAdams]

I have a first edition of Faulkner's Green Bough and Marble Faun. I wish I could get that signed.

[barbara0207]

Sorry, but I've never been able to understand what people should want other people's signature for (except on a cheque :) ).

What's so great about an autograph? (I'm serious!)

[formality hater]

Sorry, but I've never been able to understand what people should want other people's signature for (except on a cheque :) ).

What's so great about an autograph? (I'm serious!)

Why people collect stamps or butterfly-prints?
I take it as a hobby,nothing else.Don't know about others?

[NickAdams]

Sorry, but I've never been able to understand what people should want other people's signature for (except on a cheque :) ).

What's so great about an autograph? (I'm serious!)

I'm with you. But when it comes to authors, I hope the write a ittle bit more. It's one of my enjoyments of buying used books: the small chance that a message was written inside the book, it gives it another life. I have a copy of The Sun Also Rises with a small story on the inside.

[Niamh]

i've a copy of the poetical works of thomas moore from 1900. Inside the bood is the signature of the famous irish tenor Count John Francis MaCormack while he was still a student(know that because it doesnt have count at the beginning of signature.) he was famous for singing Moores Melodies. Book got valued at €300 because of it.
Although it would be better to have an earlier edition with Moores signature!

[andave_ya]

My "Busman's Honeymoon" by DLS
My LOTR by Tolkien
My Complete Sherlock Holmes by Doyle
My Pride and Prejudice by Austen
My "Lord Brocktree" by Brian Jacques

Bit greedy, ain't I? :lol:

I don't actually have an autographed book, though.

[barbara0207]

I'm with you. But when it comes to authors, I hope the write a ittle bit more. It's one of my enjoyments of buying used books: the small chance that a message was written inside the book, it gives it another life. I have a copy of The Sun Also Rises with a small story on the inside.

Yes, I can understand that. That kind of thing makes the used book special, gives it character and life somehow. From my greataunt I inherited a song book printed at the beginning of the 20th century. Inside she had scribbled additional stanzas or comments. That book is very special to me, especially as I loved her.

[BlueSkyGB]

The only book I have that is autographed is a bio of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, that I picked up at a booksigning in Altanta, years ago...:)

[papayahed]

Sorry, but I've never been able to understand what people should want other people's signature for (except on a cheque :) ).

What's so great about an autograph? (I'm serious!)

I don't know. I was never big on autographs until I was at some rock festival and Tom Morello (Rage against the Machine/Audioslave guitarist) was signing autographs at a booth. The line was really short so I got in line and an usher/security type person told me the line was closed.:( I decided I wasn't gonna let a little thing like that stop me so I hung around and ended up with an autograph and a poster. He has very soft hands.

[barbara0207]

I don't know. I was never big on autographs until I was at some rock festival and Tom Morello (Rage against the Machine/Audioslave guitarist) was signing autographs at a booth. The line was really short so I got in line and an usher/security type person told me the line was closed.:( I decided I wasn't gonna let a little thing like that stop me so I hung around and ended up with an autograph and a poster. He has very soft hands.

I call that perseverance. And I can understand about the hands. :D

[Poppy]

I have a copy of The Sun Also Rises with a small story on the inside.

From Papa himself? I would say I would love to a have a signed Hemingway!

[Mortis Anarchy]

W.B. Yeats, Orwell, Borges and...hmmm Jane Austen would be neat.

The only signature I've ever gotten was Brian Jacques. Oh, and Paolini. But Brian Jacques was way cooler. He said he wanted my shoes...they fit his whole pirate theme. I had on my old holey pair of converse that I painted up. I had painted the Jolly Roger on the tip, not for that occassion, I just painted it on them. They were so cool. He was cool! He helped inspire me to write...that was in the 6th grade I believe.