Signed Books

MainAll Books Auctions

About Collectible Signed Books

Signed books have long occupied the top of the food chain in book collecting. Signed first editions can be worth even more, with prices well into the thousands. As with all signed collectibles, authenticity is crucial.

Some writers whose signed works are currently being sold for large sums include Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, W.B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Truman Capote, not to mention presidential memoirs by Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Franklin Roosevelt.


Interviews & Articles

An Interview With American Cookbook Expert and Rare Book Curator Peter Berg

Special collections is where we keep non-circulating rare materials which have to be used in the reading room… [more]

An Interview With Children’s Book Curator Rita Smith

I started working as the curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in 1994, but I’… [more]

Guest Column: Bookplate (Exlibris) Collecting Basics

Bookplate mania in America and England peaked from 1890 to about 1920. That's when the really great collectio… [more]

An Interview With Silver Bookmark Collector Howie Schecter

I’m a packrat, so in 1995, I was itching to collect something. I went around to local flea markets here bec… [more]



Best of the Web (“Hall of Fame”)

Google Book Search

Google Book Search

Want to do one quick search and pull up the mother lode of vintage books? Try Google Book Search, a database filled… [read review or visit site]

Baldwin Library of Childrens Literature

Baldwin Library of Childrens Literature

If you’re interested in collectible childrens books, check out this special digital collection from the Universit… [read review or visit site]

Feeding America

Feeding America

This archive of 76 influential American cookbooks from the late 1700s to early 1900s, assembled by the Michigan St… [read review or visit site]

Gallery of Book Trade Labels

Gallery of Book Trade Labels

Greg Kindall's collection of over 2100 colorful and historic book labels, pasted into books by publishers, printers… [read review or visit site]

Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves

Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves

This great blog, by an anonymous mom in Texas, is an ongoing bibliography of hundreds of vintage childrens books, c… [read review or visit site]

Vintage Cookbooks Photo Pool

Vintage Cookbooks Photo Pool

This Flickr photo pool features over 2,000 photos and scans of vintage cookbooks and old recipes from the 1940s to … [read review or visit site]

Rare Karate Book Collection

Rare Karate Book Collection

This visually interesting and highly specialized collection from the Hawaii Karate Museum focuses on rare and histo… [read review or visit site]

Czech Book Covers

Czech Book Covers

This Smithsonian microsite showcases Czech avant-garde book cover designs from the 1920s and 30s, complete with hig… [read review or visit site]

Bookscans.com

Bookscans.com

Bruce Black's gallery of paperback book covers from the 1940s and 50s. With help from numerous contributors, he's a… [read review or visit site]


Got a site to suggest? Let us know.




Clubs & Associations: Books


Other Great Reference Sites: Books

Are we missing one? Tell us.

Top eBay Auctions  Help | Get weekly Signed Books email

Sorted by        
Winston Churchill Signed 1st The Second World War 6vols$680.67 Ends Sunday 15 bids 23 watchers
Salvador Dali' Biblia Sacra Hand-signed - Ink-drawing$610.00 Ends Tuesday 9 bids 30 watchers
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow 1928 Arthur Rackman Signed$475.00 Ends Monday 9 bids 10 watchers
Joseph Heller..catch 22..true 1st/1st Dj Signed Nice$460.00 Ends Monday 14 bids 28 watchers
Dennis Wheatley First Edition Signed Autographed$415.23 Ends in 19 hours 32 bids 7 watchers
Chas.bukowski"the Day The Epileptic Spoke" Signed/dated$313.00 Ends Tuesday 6 bids 16 watchers
Lot Of 12 Easton Press Sci-fi / All Signed / All Mint$310.00 Ends Sunday 14 bids 36 watchers
Pablo Picasso Vintage Signed Book With Drawing 1960 Nr$305.00 Ends in 22 hours 8 bids 24 watchers
Under The Dome By Stephen King, Signed Limited Edition$300.00 Ends Friday 2 bids 30 watchers
Stephen King - The Waste Lands - Signed Ltd #'d - Dtiii$255.00 Ends Wednesday 14 bids 22 watchers
President Bill Clinton Limited Signed My Life, 1/1,500$233.83 Ends Sunday 8 bids 22 watchers
Dalai Lama Signed Easton Press Book! Only One Ever Sold$232.50 Ends Thursday 15 bids 38 watchers
Mastering French Cooking Signed Julia Child 1st Vol 2$203.01 Ends Sunday 5 bids 20 watchers
Wonderful Winston S. Churchill Signed Their Finest Hour$202.50 Ends Monday 7 bids 11 watchers
Edmund Hillary High Adventure - Signed 1st 1955 + Photo$182.70 Ends Tuesday 1 bid 4 watchers
President George Bush Signed All The Best Easton Press$177.83 Ends Sunday 9 bids 26 watchers
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club - Signed & Doodled Us$175.00 Ends Sunday 1 bid 3 watchers
Aviation,raf,air Force,bomber Offensive,signed Harris$169.41 Ends Monday 10 bids 7 watchers
Ansel Adams - Yosemite And The Range Of Light (signed)$164.43 Ends Tuesday 1 bid 2 watchers
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Signed Hb Dj 1960$152.50 Ends Sunday 20 bids 34 watchers
Gone With The Wind Signed First Margaret Mitchell 1936 $152.50 Ends in 19 hours 12 bids 19 watchers
Not Without Laughter Signed By Langston Hughes$152.00 Ends Wednesday 9 bids 6 watchers
Faraday-signed Researches In Electricity 1840 1st Ed.$151.00 Ends Friday 13 bids 11 watchers
Dan Brown Signed The Lost Symbol First Edition Flawless$140.49 Ends Tuesday 10 bids 20 watchers
1897 Dracula - First Edition Signed By Bela Lugosi$138.28 Ends Tuesday 7 bids 13 watchers
Dan Brown Collection - Five First Prints - One Signed!$132.50 Ends Wednesday 11 bids 23 watchers
Dan Brown Signed 1st The Lost Symbol$130.49 Ends Tuesday 14 bids 23 watchers
Military Memoirs 1805 W Thomson Signed Glenie$125.00 Ends Sunday 1 bid 1 watcher
The American Theatre As Seen By Hirschfeld 1961 Signed$125.00 Ends Tuesday 1 bid 2 watchers
George H W Bush Speaking Of Freedom Signed Easton Press$122.50 Ends Monday 4 bids 14 watchers
Martha's Vineyard Decoys Stanley Murphy Signed Ducks Nr$122.50 Ends Sunday 9 bids 33 watchers
John Dunning Collection - Five Firsts - All Signed!$120.50 Ends Wednesday 5 bids 12 watchers
Edmund Hillary Signed Ltd Easton Press Book$117.50 Ends Tuesday 9 bids 12 watchers
President Richard Nixon Signed Memoirs Autograph Book$113.02 Ends Sunday 10 bids 15 watchers
Angie Sage Syren Signed First Lined Dated 1/1 Uk Hbdj $111.28 Ends in 22 hours 10 bids 12 watchers
Angela's Ashes - Frank Mccourt Signed Easton Press Rare$107.50 Ends in 22 hours 3 bids 5 watchers
Ed Hillary Signed - View From Summit - Easton Press New$107.28 Ends Sunday 9 bids 14 watchers
Where The Wild Things Are-1963 Signed By Maurice Sendak$103.59 Ends Sunday 12 bids 22 watchers
Apollo 11 Signed Neil Armstrong/buzz Adrin/mike Collins$102.50 Ends Tuesday 16 bids 47 watchers
Adolf Fassbender 1937 Pictorial Artistry Signed Copy$102.50 Ends in 16 hours 2 bids 15 watchers
Simon Necronomicon Signed Barnes First Edition 1977 $102.50 Ends in 23 hours 6 bids 16 watchers
For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway 1st Edition Signed$102.50 Ends Thursday 6 bids 14 watchers
Signed Indianapolis 500 Harry Miller Racing Dynasty$100.00 Ends Sunday 3 bids 12 watchers
Autographed First Edition Of Robinson Jeffers' Medea$100.00 Ends Sunday 2 bids 11 watchers
Easton Press Desmond Tutu Leather Signed Sealed$100.00 Ends Wednesday 4 bids 10 watchers
President Bill Clinton Signed My Life Autograph Book$100.00 Ends in 13 hours 1 bid 4 watchers
John Glenn: A Memoir Signed Easton Press$100.00 Ends in 22 hours 6 bids 8 watchers
Signed Edition Easton Press, Henry Kissinger$100.00 Ends in 17 hours 5 bids 14 watchers
Hillary Clinton Living History Limited Signed 1 Of 1500$100.00 Ends Thursday 8 bids 5 watchers
Easton Press Double Helix Watson Signed Sealed New!$100.00 Ends Sunday 8 bids 15 watchers
Where The Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak Autographed$99.99 Ends Wednesday 1 bid 10 watchers
Dear Mili Maurice Sendak Autographed Printers Page $99.99 Ends Wednesday 1 bid 7 watchers
Signed Dated Czeslaw Milosz Land Of Ulro 1st 1st 1984$99.99 Ends in 17 hours 1 bid 2 watchers
Catch-22 Joseph Heller Signed Book Franklin Library$99.00 Ends Tuesday 1 bid 7 watchers
President George Bush Signed Speaking Of Freedom Easton$96.00 Ends Sunday 8 bids 16 watchers

»» Get our weekly Signed Books email
Right now on eBay

Books

See also

Tools