Signed book

[Nshan324]

i recently put a signed copy of Women on layaway and would like to know that if I show a picture of the signature and inscription that if anybody here can let me know if it is authentic

 

[bospress.net]

yep. for sure. Post the pic, yo.

 

[Nshan324]

This is the signature and inscription. I would love to know if it is authentic.

 

[skiroomalum]

Yeah, looks right. My guess is the Sig/inscription is from 1992 or so.

 

[bospress.net]

yep, this expert calls it 100% authentic.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Good from this end; I'd say the signature looks circa '93 to me but that may be splitting hairs.

 

[bospress.net]

From the date on that title page, I'd say that the binding smells of Rosemary...

 

[Nshan324]

There was a cool story behind this too that I think might help determine when it was signed. The book store I'm buying this from got it from the lady who me this book was signed too and she said that she went to the race track and found Buk and that he was in a good mood and signed it for her with the inscription. I always wanted just one book of his signed and this inscription made me buy it. Thank you guys so much for the responses! And another question...is that inscription itself rare? Has it been written in other books before?

 

[d gray]

at first read i thought it said "i left some of the logmen out..."

nice one.

 

[Joseph K]

is that inscription itself rare? Has it been written in other books before?

I've never seen that message before though I'm no expert. Looks very nice! :)

 

[mjp]

is that inscription itself rare?

All of his inscriptions were unique, so none of them are "rare," so to speak.

Or all of them are, I suppose, depending on how you look at it.

 

[Black Swan]

absolootely!:wb:

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I have a first edition copy of Betting on the Muse with an inscription to his publisher John Martin that reads:

"JESUS FUCKING CHRIST John, I was nice enough to put up with your crap when I was alive, can you please stop rapping my dead corpse?"

There, I said it... Rape.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

There, I said it... Rape.

Actually, what you said was rapp. A lesser-known genre of sexual deviance manifested by auto-erotic gibberish.