PBA and the Linda King effect... (1 Viewer)
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There is a dealer who specializes in mountaineering books just outside of Denver that does the same thing. And I just don't understand it. Borderline diminishes what you have, in my meaningless opinion. If it involves provenance, I'm down. If the sig is from somebody who wrote a foreword, afterword, etc., I'm still down.
But having Burroughs sign a Kerouac book just because he was in the book? I'm not down.
But having Burroughs sign a Kerouac book just because he was in the book? I'm not down.
jordan
lothario speedwagon
at least ferlinghetti is the publisher of the two city lights ones. still, it conveys a certain desperation in the bukowski industry that those around him feel that it's appropriate for them to sign his books as if they are his proxies. and it surprises me that an auction house like PBA would buy into that, rather than recognizing - like any used bookstore at which you tried to trade in those books for store credit would - that those signatures add no value whatsoever.
Gary Eisenberg
RIP
This is quite a thread! A certain surreal quality that has my addled head spinning. I'll just mention this: Some booksellers will push the idea of an "association" copy. Example: I once owned a book of Luigi Pirandello plays. Signed by Pirandello, but also by actress Anna Mae Wong. The only common thread was that one was a playwright and the other an actress. I saw the book on the shelf for $8. That seemed cheap. I bought it and then sold it to another book dealer for around $50. He was more interested in the Anna Mae Wong association than the author's signature. Go figure.
mjp
Founding member
Jesus man, you ask more questions than John Wayne Gacy...
Pogue Mahone
Officials say drugs may have played a part
mjp
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$48 for Linda King's signature? That's pretty funny. The seller(s) must getting loopy from lack of oxygen or something.
Carol found a baseball the other night with Robert Duvall's signature on it, which reminded me that at one time I must have had a dozen American League baseballs signed by people like Gary Oldman, Demi Moore, Tom Cruise, Drew Barrymore, Michael Douglas, Aerosmith, Melanie Griffith, etc. I thought I'd sold them all, but I guess I missed one.
Anyway, when I saw that Duvall ball, for a moment I thought, "Jesus, maybe I was just like those numbskulls who get Linda King to sign everything in sight and then try to sell it..." Then I said, "Nah," had a piece of cheese on a cracker and forgot about it. Until now.
Carol found a baseball the other night with Robert Duvall's signature on it, which reminded me that at one time I must have had a dozen American League baseballs signed by people like Gary Oldman, Demi Moore, Tom Cruise, Drew Barrymore, Michael Douglas, Aerosmith, Melanie Griffith, etc. I thought I'd sold them all, but I guess I missed one.
Anyway, when I saw that Duvall ball, for a moment I thought, "Jesus, maybe I was just like those numbskulls who get Linda King to sign everything in sight and then try to sell it..." Then I said, "Nah," had a piece of cheese on a cracker and forgot about it. Until now.
I once had a volleyball signed by john voit.
bospress.net
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Jon Voight is a douchebag...
Another guy you wouldn't take for a neo-con, but is. A kook for sure, but a good actor.
Gary Eisenberg
RIP
I'll definitely second that. Ugh.
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Maybe he should spell his name - Jon Void. :p
I think Midnight Cowboy is up there. What a shame.
If I pay Linda King $50, will she come to my house and do the "white dog hunch" or whatever jig Bukowski said she would do?
Pogue Mahone
Officials say drugs may have played a part
I've had a couple of copies from Linda's 2009 edition of Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems.
She shells them for $19.95 on eBay and it is well worth the price. It's half Bukowski poems and most of his drawings. You should definitely shell out the $19.95 for it.
That being said, it's supposed to be an edition of 500, 100 of which are signed by Linda.
After seeing the other stuff out there, I wonder if the "100" signed editions is the actual number...
But I defintely recommend buying it for your collection. Shit, it's not even that badly produced.
Buy it and keep her in Naugahyde heaven...
She shells them for $19.95 on eBay and it is well worth the price. It's half Bukowski poems and most of his drawings. You should definitely shell out the $19.95 for it.
That being said, it's supposed to be an edition of 500, 100 of which are signed by Linda.
After seeing the other stuff out there, I wonder if the "100" signed editions is the actual number...
But I defintely recommend buying it for your collection. Shit, it's not even that badly produced.
Buy it and keep her in Naugahyde heaven...
bukfan: when the hell do you sleep?
mjp
Founding member
Pics or it didn't happen!
I also found some pictures of the others. Except the one signed by Drew Barrymore. It will have to go undocumented. What a god damn shame that is.
I also found some pictures of the others. Except the one signed by Drew Barrymore. It will have to go undocumented. What a god damn shame that is.
mjp
Founding member
I don't remember exactly, but I don't believe that I got much more than $100 for any of them.
If I had done them as an "investment" expecting to cash in on them one day, I would have been surprised and disappointed. Okay, maybe not surprised. They were baseballs after all. But they weren't investments, they were just some things taking up space and I wasn't attached to them, so I didn't really care what they sold for. I probably would have given them away if someone was at the house admiring them or getting excited about them.
Having said that, I like that the Robert Duvall ball survived somehow. That no one cared enough to buy it. So right now it's up on the mantle, next to a big Tibor Jankay painting and our dog Buddy (in an urn).
;)
If I had done them as an "investment" expecting to cash in on them one day, I would have been surprised and disappointed. Okay, maybe not surprised. They were baseballs after all. But they weren't investments, they were just some things taking up space and I wasn't attached to them, so I didn't really care what they sold for. I probably would have given them away if someone was at the house admiring them or getting excited about them.
Having said that, I like that the Robert Duvall ball survived somehow. That no one cared enough to buy it. So right now it's up on the mantle, next to a big Tibor Jankay painting and our dog Buddy (in an urn).
;)
