What's new in your collection?

How about an ongoing thread to highlight the new additions to your collection?

Whether it's a through-the-mail freebie or a big buck acquisition... it's all good. Show us what you got!

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Permalink Reply by J.Seah on May 7, 2023 at 2:24pm

Dolph Lundgren

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Permalink Reply by Mark Saunders on May 10, 2023 at 3:44pm

A framing I’m proud of.

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Permalink Reply by Tom B on May 10, 2023 at 4:10pm

Love this! Well done.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Saunders on May 10, 2023 at 7:35pm

Thank you

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Permalink Reply by Chas on May 10, 2023 at 8:13pm

beauty

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Permalink Reply by J.Seah on May 12, 2023 at 10:29am

Paul McCartney 1960’s

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Permalink Reply by Chas on May 12, 2023 at 1:10pm

cheers - what is that ? Milk?

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on May 21, 2023 at 7:49pm

That’s really a good looking signature!!

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Permalink Reply by crazyrabbits23 on May 14, 2023 at 9:35pm

Mission complete. One of several she signed for me this past weekend, and one of the new grails in my Atwood collection. Still as amazing as ever.

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Permalink Reply by Stepeanut on May 14, 2023 at 10:14pm

Excellent work once again. I admire your dedication.

Congrats!

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Permalink Reply by crazyrabbits23 on May 17, 2023 at 7:48am

It was a solid function - she was very generous with her time this past weekend, but that has more to do with the fact that she just finished the publicity tour for Old Babes and wasn't limiting signatures to pre-signed bookplates (which is what she did last Tuesday for an event in Windsor, after initially saying she would sign - there were 600 attendees).

There were three or four other guests at the event who brought a bag of books to get signed like I did. One was an older man who brought a bunch of mid-80s stuff to get signed (and said he was a big fan), and another was sitting at my table and had the same mindset I do (buy books at thrift and get them signed). There was a lot of new and vintage stock from a local bookseller that got snapped up, and I grabbed a Can. copy of Old Babes that had a problem with the dust jacket (washed-out colours) that I got her to sign.

I'm guessing she signed anywhere from 300-400 books total. Like the Indigo event last year, a large number of attendees bought multiple copies of the same book (Handmaid's Tale paperback/Old Babes) with the intent to get them signed for family and friends.

We had a fun little talk about Edible Woman that had her admit that the book has been optioned for a film "about ten times", but that it has never been officially picked up for development.

I'll put up some more photos later - got a few interesting items, including a personal "grail" item I got her and another author to sign at the event.

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Permalink Reply by crazyrabbits23 on May 24, 2023 at 5:05pm

Some more examples for you - I had her sign a number of high-priority items I'd brought, including a copy of her late husband's book The Bedside Book of Beasts and a Giller Prize anthology I'm hoping to get signed by all the finalists from the first 15 years of its existence.

You can see some interesting quirks throughout the signatures, which is why I tend to stress to friends of mine that there's a lot of variation in the way she signs. Depending on how charitable she feels, she'll either go super-small (like she did last year) or do giant signatures for her newer work. My signed Atwood count stands at 70 - I've essentially hit my 20-book goal for the year.