What is your dream book? I'm talking- if you could have any edition of any book ever written, signed by the author, which book would you choose?

[deleted] · 4 months

I'd like a First Printing of Ulysses, with an inscription by Joyce telling me what the fuck is going on.

Grick · 4 months

A signed copy of The Iliad.

intangible-tangerine · 4 months

The British Library has records of only two copies of the first printing of the first edition of Shakespeare's first folio being in existence. I'd love me one of those.

supahamir · 4 months

The first bound copy (in Italian) of The Divine Comedy signed by Dante.

Belial4 · 4 months

One of the 200 copies of "Leaves of Grass" printed my Whitman himself.

Captain_Biostats · 4 months

I'd like The Silmarillion signed by Tolkien. But instead of signing his name, he'd sign it with the rest of the stories.

hep123 · 4 months

The Bible (signed by God)

ACamelsDragon · 4 months

1984, first edition.

birdsenjoyghost · 4 months

I would chose a book about movie marketing written by myself...A girl can dream right?

tttt0tttt · 4 months

Gutenberg Bible, signed by Gutenberg.

MarvellousG · 4 months

Kerouac's actual scroll from On The Road would be okay.

Arkaic · 4 months

I want a 1st edition, autographed copy of Infinite Jest, complete with hand-written annotations and commentary by David Foster Wallace on every page. I don't care if there's already hundreds of pages of endnotes, it's my dream book dammit!

exNihlio · 4 months

The original scrolls that The Art of War was written on. Failing that, a signed copy of Zap Brannigans Big Book of War.

alphenos · 4 months

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Paper_Mario · 4 months

I would love to have a copy of Dune signed by Frank Herbert.

english_nerd · 4 months

First edition of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar under her pseudonym.

boringlesbian · 4 months

The Tale of the Genjii by Murasaki Shikibu

Mack513 · 4 months

Infinite Jest by DFW.

qmyers25 · 4 months

The Sun Also Rises, first edition, signed by Hemingway with Gertrude Stein's pen.

GREAT_VAGINA_OF_DOOM · 4 months

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blenGeck · 4 months

Here's an obtainable one: Cat's Cradle or anything Vonnegut really.

aitiafo · 4 months

To Kill A Mockingbird.

kasutori_Jack · 4 months

So, a signed copy of Robert Frank's photo book 'The Americans' goes for $12,000 (at least) according to google.

What I want though, is a signed version that includes the signature of this dude who wrote the introduction. A game named Kerouac.

Sven2774 · 4 months

Entire Discworld collection, signed by Pratchett. Alternatively, the Voynich Manuscript and the... damn what was it called.... It's the modern encyclopedia of another world written by an artist. It's expensive but I can never remember the name.

winkyburger · 4 months

A first-edition copy of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.

dr_strangelove42 · 4 months

Gravity's Rainbow or V.

One because Pynchon is my favorite author. And they're probably more rare than say a signed Faulkner or Hemingway.

drunkenmonkey22 · 4 months

if i'm allowed sell it, then the book of kells, or something similar where you could sell it for a few million dollars... otherwise something from before paper/parchment was used, just because of how unique it would be. Otherwise I would like a first edition of Candide by Voltaire, signed by the author. Or some of Plato's early work, signed by Plato, though i don't know if they count as a book...

Adajeanne · 4 months

A first-edition of Erasmus's Colloquia, signed of course.

[deleted] · 4 months

On the Nature of Things, the original manuscript.

fosterwallacejr · 4 months

First edition "Gargantua and Panatgruel" Gustave Dore illsutrations, signed by Dore, dkno if Rabelais was alive at that time but if so signed by both

Superguy2876 · 4 months

First bound copy of The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy and all sequels signed by Douglas Adams. Or compete discworld by terry pratchett.

butterfly_wings · 4 months

First edition of Matilda by Roald Dahl signed by the man himself. It was the first book I read all the way through by myself and one I have read many times since.

teaandviolets · 4 months

Caesar's Commentaries original manuscript. That would rock my world.

arcade_13 · 4 months

Silmarillion signed by Tolkien with an introduction by his son. :)

imbeingkidnapped · 4 months

An original edition of Slaughterhouse-Five signed by Vonnegut.

Sleep45 · 4 months

Calvin and Hobbes signed by Stephen Hawking.

Thesunsetreindeer · 4 months

i would love a signed, first edition copy of the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger. that would just make my heart explode

blackthirteen · 4 months

I would love a first edition of The Gunslinger signed by Stephen King.

hambones · 4 months

I have a signed first edition of Hitch 22, so I'm good.

[deleted] · 4 months

The Beautiful and Damned, 1st edition - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Interview With A Vampire, 1st edition - Anne Rice

scribbling_des · 4 months

I all ready have a signed leather bound copy of Slaughterhouse-five so I would have to say signed first edition or leather bound The Sound and the Fury

Queen_of_Swords · 4 months

Easy. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, leather bound and signed and personalized.

MAC_TRUCK_HITS_BABY · 4 months

Without a stipulation that I cannot sell it: Signed copy of the Illiad.

With the stipulation that I cannot sell it: Signed copy of The Illiad.

DarrelSirens · 4 months

A copy of East of Eden with a personal message written by Steinbeck himself.

TrappedInATardis · 4 months

First edition of Newton's Principia

historianess · 4 months

A copy of Coraline, any edition, signed by the author after a long conversation about books over tea.

DENVER0501 · 4 months

Would the original handwritten version of The Apocrapha by John the Apostle qualify? If so, what bank is big enough to handle the money when I sell it?

slash3r · 4 months

For fiction, Crime and Punishment, the russian first edition, signed by Dostoyevsky. I would learn the language just for it. For non-fiction, sign me in for The Origin of Species, that book's legacy has saved more lives than religion has wasted.

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