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Hi Friend,
I recently went to a book signing for my Forbes blog and had the author and Mets GM autograph my book.
They signed it to me, which, of course, lowers the value. It got me wondering if any of you have their books signed without personalizations?
David
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Okay, thanks for the advice. It's the same as baseball or a photo.
David
I don't agree with the other reply, but my reasoning isn't really based upon value.
When I attend a book signing, a big part of the "event" is being able to meet and interact with the author of the book. I don't mind having books personalized (either to myself or a friend), since it's a personal/semi-intimate setting. In the case of a photo/ball/etc, I would be getting the autograph more for display purposes (less sentiment), so I would hope the item wasn't inscribed, since that might detract from the display.
Now, for pure marketability/value, in my (very limited) experience, signed book values don't seem to be affected by personalized notations. I guess a part of this is due to the aforementioned intimacy, and a part due to the display value: since most book signatures are on one of the inside pages (and not usually the outside cover), they're very difficult to display to begin with. As such, signatures in books are treated much like "cut" signatures would be, which means you could always just cut the signature out of the book without the personalized note, in the event you wanted to sell the autograph.
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