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Permalink Reply by Kai Jones on July 22, 2023 at 6:18pm

This is real.

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Permalink Reply by Marmot C on July 23, 2023 at 8:29am

Thank you! I'm also looking for some George Carlin signed stuff recently. What do you think does a George Carlin signed item worth? Does the signing style (early "full name" autograph vs later style) matter?

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Permalink Reply by Kai Jones on July 23, 2023 at 8:37am

Im not familiar with Carlin’s signature. As a rule of thumb, a full signature is always better than a rushed or lesser signature. I tend to lean towards vintage stuff personally. 

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on July 23, 2023 at 12:45pm

its good, I ordered one myself

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Permalink Reply by crazyrabbits23 on July 24, 2023 at 4:33am

Any book with one of the inserted pre-pub signature/limitation pages is usually legit. I can only think of one, maybe two, instances where there was extreme doubt on the validity of the page itself, and I seem to recall that it would be far too expensive/time-consuming to try to rebind a  book with a fake limitation page.

This looks like a limitation page tied to B&N copies.

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Permalink Reply by Marmot C on July 24, 2023 at 7:47am

Thanks for the information! Recently I just found signed books to be seemingly more reliable. I've read on this forum from someone stating that he'll only consider collecting a George Harrison autograph from one of his Genesis signed edition books. I think he surely made the point.

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Permalink Reply by crazyrabbits23 on July 24, 2023 at 8:02am

That's generally why I collect - it's harder to fake an inscribed copy of a book by a more-prominent author (though by no means impossible), and there are certain authors I've "spec'd" into (Stuart Maclean, Peter C. Newman, Margaret Atwood, any former Can. Prime Minister) where I find it's easier to collect/validate them because of the nature of the work/provenance.

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