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Jerry Lee Lewis New Book and Signing?

has anybody got information about what bookstores jerry is attending to sign his new book ? I say sign as I have seen at the barnes &noble store in new York while he will be in attendance the books will be pre signed and only the auther will be signing !! does that set any alarm bells off

at this moment this is the only signing he will be attending does anyone know of any others as would really like to add him to my book collection and being based in uk I have to get in touch with the stores in usa !!

thanks

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roberts on December 2, 2014 at 12:32pm

thanks guys - Again very happy with the out come! :)

Mark

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on December 2, 2014 at 12:52pm

The "old man" theory doesn't hold water, in my opinion. Compare the first signature that Mark posted to the one he recently received on the debut LP. Obviously the same signer, but the signature on the debut LP is much neater and smoother. You'd never know that it was signed by an old man.

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Permalink Reply by Null on December 2, 2014 at 2:10pm

There's 27 pages, I don't know which ones you are referring to, but I just compared Mark's recent TTM returns to the several "signed book" examples from this thread and none of them are even remotely comparable IMHO. To the point of where I don't even understand how you can rationally argue about it:

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on December 2, 2014 at 2:34pm

I'm referring to this one:

PSA/DNA autheticated at least two JLLs that are supposed to be in the hand of Whitten. Apparently they believe that it can be rationally argued.

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Permalink Reply by roger epperson on December 2, 2014 at 3:11pm

when was this one questioned as not being authentic?

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on December 2, 2014 at 3:18pm

It wasn't questioned as not being authentic. My point is that you couldn't determine that it was signed by an old man based on its appearance.

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Permalink Reply by roger epperson on December 2, 2014 at 3:22pm

agreed

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on December 2, 2014 at 3:25pm

Thank you. So he's capable of both a sloppy signature and smooth, neat one.

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Permalink Reply by roger epperson on December 2, 2014 at 3:31pm

I never said that couldn't happen. But the characteristics of his "sloppy" signature and the books which were called sloppy sigs are not even close to being the same.

It appears that the threat of "JLL" doing something about questioning his signature has swayed your opinion on these autographs. Could you share the emails you received from others that have told you about the "legal" action that is alleged to be taking place?

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on December 2, 2014 at 3:45pm

I know you didn't say that. It's being implied that JLL couldn't have signed the books because the signatures don't appear to be in the hand of an old man.

I'm not sure what you mean in your second paragraph. I've held the same opinion about the signatures since early on in the TTM discussion. I haven't received any emails regarding any legal action.

Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on December 2, 2014 at 5:27pm

PSA/DNA autheticated at least two JLLs that are supposed to be in the hand of Whitten. Apparently they believe that it can be rationally argued.

The difference is that PSA did not cert the suspect pick guards as part of a huge batch of consistently atypical examples. In onesies and twosies it is conceivable the suspect style could slip by.

This is a large batch of books that are all consistently atypical and show little to no natural variation.

In my opinion, the recent signatures from Mark Roberts are further evidence the books are suspect. Note the sweeping bottom of the J in all of them. No Ls that look like 7s. And they are BIG... not those tiny little book signatures.

It looks like JLL barely made it through the five items Mark Roberts sent and they all display a range of natural variation... how could he have possibly signed 700+ books all so neatly and consistently?

In my opinion, you cannot authenticate a huge batch of atypical signatures based on finding oddball examples from here and there with a few similar atypical traits. It's like finding one authentic Mantle with a weird narrow loop under the M and using it to argue the banana Mantles are all good.

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Permalink Reply by Null on December 2, 2014 at 8:03pm

The books and Mark's recent TTMs are night/day... It'd be like Mantle having 700 "signed" books where magically he no longer did loops for the M's and changed the formation of damn near every letter in his name.