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If you would like to purchase a signed book, please contact us via email at read@booksmith.com or by phone at 800-493-7323 (toll free in US) or 415-863-8688 and ask for Christy. Our Signed book department is staffed Tuesday - Friday.

If you are interested in a book and wish to visit the store to look at it on a day I'm not here, let me know and I will put a copy on hold for you.

We are happy to take orders in advance for signed books by authors who are scheduled to appear at our store or at a Booksmith sponsored event. To reserve a book or to have a title inscribed by an author, contact us before the scheduled event. Please check our Events Calendar to see who will be speaking and/or signing at our store.

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FICTION // NON-FICTION // MUSIC


BOOKS WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT

 

Enchantress of Florence by Salmon Rushdie (signed hardback 1st edition, $27.00)
--- new novel from the acclaimed author of Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children, etc....

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.00)
--- widely praised first novel from a young, Serbian-born writer now living in Germany (where the book was a smash)

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer (signed hardback 1st edition, $22.00)
--- a beautiful new novel from the acclaimed author of Confessions of Max Tivoli

Lady Lazarus by Andrew Foster Altschul (signed hardback 1st edition,
$25.00)
--- a first novel which earned praise from the likes of Andrew Sean Greer, Heidi Julavits, Elizabeth Tallent, etc....

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.95)
--- provocative new novel from the author of Fight Club

Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz (signed hardback 1st edition, $25.00)
--- new comidic novel from the author of The Spellman Files

The Answer is Always Yes by Monica Ferrell (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.00) AVAILABLE JULY
--- debut novel by a poet and former Stegner Fellow

War by Todd Komarnicki (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.95)
AVAILABLE JULY
--- second novel from the screenwriter, producer, director

The End of the Jews by Adam Mansbach (signed hardback 1st edition, $23.95)
--- a well regarded new novel

Personal Days by Ed Park (signed softcover 1st edition, $13.00)
--- humorous debut novel - an office novel and a paperback original from the founding editor of The Believer

Boom! Voices of the Sixties by Tom Brokaw (signed hardcover 1st edition, $28.95)
--- a fascinating collection of personal reflections of the 60s by a variety of people who lived through the decade. I always love oral histories, and this is a wonderful collection of histories from across the political and social spectrum. Our copy is signed by the editor, and legendary newsman, Tom Brokaw.


FICTION

 

Enchantress of Florence by Salmon Rushdie (signed hardback 1st edition, $27.00)
--- new novel from the acclaimed author of Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children, etc....

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.00)
--- widely praised first novel from a young, Serbian-born writer now living in Germany (where the book was a smash)

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer (signed hardback 1st edition, $22.00)
--- a beautiful new novel from the acclaimed author of Confessions of
Max Tivoli

Lady Lazarus by Andrew Foster Altschul (signed hardback 1st edition,
$25.00)
--- a first novel which earned praise from the likes of Andrew Sean Greer, Heidi Julavits, Elizabeth Tallent, etc....

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.95)
--- provocative new novel from the author of Fight Club

Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz (signed hardback 1st edition, $25.00)
--- new comidic novel from the author of The Spellman Files

The Answer is Always Yes by Monica Ferrell (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.00) AVAILABLE JULY
--- debut novel by a poet and former Stegner Fellow

War by Todd Komarnicki (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.95)
AVAILABLE JULY
--- second novel from the screenwriter, producer, director

The End of the Jews by Adam Mansbach (signed hardback 1st edition, $23.95)
--- a well regarded new novel

Personal Days by Ed Park (signed softcover 1st edition, $13.00)
--- humorous debut novel - an office novel and a paperback original from the founding editor of The Believer

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (signed hardback 1st edition, $25.00)
--- the new novel from the PULITZER PRIZE winning novelist

Trauma by Patrick McGrath (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.95)
--- new novel from the acclaimed British-born Gothic novelist

All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.95)
--- debut novel from the acclaimed Russian-born translator and founding editor of the literary magazine n+1

Mayor's Tongue by Nathaniel Rich (signed hardback 1st edition, $24.95)
--- debut novel - "I read The Mayor's Tongue with ever-increasing delight, rooting with all my heart for the young protagonist on his near-mythic quest. This is an elegantly-structured, brilliantly-told novel, by turns terrifying, touching, and wildly funny, and always generous and magical. The Mayor's Tongue is about how we talk to each other and how make-believe helps us get on with our lives; most of all, it's about love. Kudos to Nathaniel Rich, who has created a brave book, a novel brimming with brio." - Stephen King

Playing by Melanie Abrams (signed softcover 1st edition, $13.00) AVAILABLE APRIL
--- debut erotic novel (paperback original) praised by the likes of Robert Hass, Howard Norman, Martha Southgate, and others

Rant by Chuck Palahniuk (signed hardcover 1st edition, $150.00)
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The Rant Limited Edition is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet, speckled edges; and an exclusive 1300-word " Automotive Afterword" entitled " Recipes for Disasters" which is not available in print anywhere but only in this limited edition. **As extras we are throwing in a special Rant bumpersticker, and a baggie with some joke cigarettes that are from Chuck's last Booksmith event. Chuck always puts on a great show and he always brings props and involves the audience. For the Rant event he brought along a box of joke cigarettes. The lucky buyer of this book will get a baggie containing 7 of these very real looking cigarettes. Just don't inhale!

 
NONFICTION

 

Boom! Voices of the Sixties by Tom Brokaw (signed hardcover 1st edition, $28.95)
--- a fascinating collection of personal reflections of the 60s by a variety of people who lived through the decade. I always love oral histories, and this is a wonderful collection of histories from across the political and social spectrum. Our copy is signed by the editor, and legendary newsman, Tom Brokaw.

If you would like to purchase a signed book, please contact us via email at read at booksmith.com or by phone, Tues - Fri, at 800-493-7323 (toll free in US) or 415-863-8688.

 

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MUSIC & SHOWBIZ

 

Punk Is Dead: Punk Is Everything! by Bryan Turcotte (signed hardcover 1st edition, $39.95)
--- Described as the “last organically incubated oppositional youth movement” of the pre-MTV era, punk slipped quietly under the cultural radar before rising again to inspire new generations of creative and idealistic artists and musicians.

   

 


SIGNED POETRY

 
SIGNED CHILDREN'S BOOKS

 
 


GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS

   

 

Robert Crumb's Sex Obsessions by Robert Crumb, Edited by Dian Hanson
Hardcover + Box, 8 x 10.8 inches, 258 pages
Signed, Limited Edition, $500.00
Taschen raised the price of this book to $700.00 on Jan. 1st. This is your chance to get a copy at the original cover price!

Crumb's personal selection of his most secret fantasies, freshly colored just for TASCHEN

They have little to do with the standard procreative urge, Mr. Crumb admits. He has also said he finds nothing more boring than someone else’s sexual obsessions, and yet through his long career the world’s most famous underground cartoonist has felt compelled to include his own sex fantasies in his art. He explains it as a compulsive catharsis, while fans call R. Crumb’s erotic fantasies the Master at his best.

Now Crumb has selected his most intimately revealing comic strips and single page drawings to create a 258 page encyclopedic trip through his sexual psyche. All images were created between 1980 and 2006, and all strips are hand-colored for a lush vibrancy never seen in his comic books. In total the book features 14 complete stories, including My Troubles With Women, If I Were a King, A Bitchin’ Bod, and How To Have Fun With a Strong Girl, as well as 60 single page drawings.

The artist admits it’s a little scary to see his most fevered obsessions collected end to end like this, but fans will find Robert Crumb’s Sex Obsessions a fascinating peek inside an often tortured, always brilliantly talented mind, as well as an unparalleled collector’s item.

This signed limited edition of 1,000 copies is a work of art in itself, with every part of the book - front and back covers, spine, and introductory pages - created for this project by Robert Crumb. Each book also comes with an art print selected by Mr. Crumb.

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