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 crazyrabbits23 on October 22, 2024 at 10:16am

I've had a lot of signed books come in over the last few weeks: signed Richard Branson, multiple signed Atwood books, but here's one that caught my eye recently. Signed memoir by Shohreh Aghdashloo - tough auto to find in the wild.

Permalink Reply by Findbooks To crazyrabbits23 on October 24, 2024 at 1:15pm

Pleased with these, a hat-trick of Nobel Laureates (Literature) - Mario Vargas Llosa, Czeslaw Milosz  & Odysseus Elytis. 

Full disclosure, that last one was not a name I was familiar with. A Greek writer, won in 1969.

Permalink Reply by Findbooks To Findbooks on October 24, 2024 at 1:16pm

Permalink Reply by Jason H on October 26, 2024 at 6:25pm

My latest cool ebay find for $30. A playbill signed by Robert Sean Leonard, Brian Dennehy and Philip Seymour Hoffman. I've always wanted to add a Hoffman to my collection. You never expect the young guys to leave us so soon. After he died, I gave up. Thought it would be impossible to add him without spending a fortune. 

Permalink Reply by crazyrabbits23 on November 4, 2024 at 2:22pm

R.I.P. to the G.O.A.T. producer. This year, all years.

Permalink Reply by Stepeanut on November 5, 2024 at 9:22am

Mackenzie Crook — If Nick Drake Came to My House:


Permalink Reply by Stepeanut on November 7, 2024 at 7:33am

Michael Caine — Don’t Look Back, You’ll Trip Over:


Permalink Reply by crazyrabbits23 To Stepeanut on November 7, 2024 at 11:24am

Bang on -- he's always had a very consistent signature. "What's It All About?" was a great read; one of a batch of signed copies I think he did when he was here in Canada many moons ago.

Permalink Reply by Stepeanut on November 11, 2024 at 2:58am

David Attenborough — The Living Planet [Collins—BBC, 1984], first edition, second impression hardback, found in the two-for-£1 section of a local charity shop:


Permalink Reply by Findbooks To Stepeanut on November 11, 2024 at 3:16am

Great score!

I can’t actually remember scoring a really good signed book in a thrift shop - a few run-of-the-mill things, maybe. Some excellent books, yes, but not signed ones.

I did once buy a gelatin silver print - framed - signed by the English photographer Don McCullin. It was a portrait of Gerald Scarfe. Paid £5 for it.

Permalink Reply by Stepeanut To Findbooks on November 11, 2024 at 3:27am

Thanks!

I’m a hardcore charity shopper.  Found many signed books over the years, including some very collectible ones.

A few years ago, I even found a genuine Robert Mitchum autograph for £5.  That’s how I ended up joining this forum.

Permalink Reply by Findbooks To Stepeanut on November 16, 2024 at 6:59am

Been looking for a good specimen of Patricia Highsmith (at a reasonable price) for a long time and like London buses two came along at the same time!

Author of the Ripley series and Strangers on a Train upon which the Hitchcock movie was based.

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