Random signed copy?
Hello all, greetings from Iceland!
I think this question needs a little bit of a background, but I'm wondering if this is random or a part of the paperback release:
I bought my copy of Haunted in 2008 from a bookstore in downtown Reykjavik and read it that fall. Great book, one of my favorites in fact so I just picked it up again.
Now, my first surprise was turning off the lights and after 2 years of owning the book being freaked out when I found out the cover glows in the dark. The following night when I picked it up again, still laughing to myself about being so surprised I went through the first few pages, after the blurbs and reviews I had skipped in the first read and noticed "All stories are ghosts". The white ink in black had kinda etched into the black page in front of it so I started wondering if the ink was also glow in the dark. So, when I put it up to the light I noticed some shadows in the paper of the right hand page which led me to the opposing page who had raised lines so I flipped the page and discovered that the title page was signed "Chuck Palahniuk"! Now, I couldn't believe it, thought it was just a print or a stamp, but the pressure of the pen is embedded 2-3 pages down, and there's a little bleed into the paper and a little smudge onto the opposing page from the signature. So, all things considered I'd say a nice felt tip pen was at work here!
I've been googling around, and the Amazon preview doesn't have a signature there.
So, picking up a signed copy from the shelf of a bookstore in Iceland is pretty random, right?
Nope, it was from a regular store, Eymundsson. If memory serves it wasn't in plastic, but it was new.
Hooray, Iceland!
what i would do is look for a real chuck palahniuk signature to compare it to. a controlled sample, if you will. there's a lot of them on ebay, or maybe someone here can take a picture of one of theirs. chuck has been to london on a tour, i think, but on his tours he usually uses some special stamp, like a pair of lips, or i have one that says "for external use only" in one of my books.
its also possible that he stopped off at a bookstore on that side of the pond and signed some random copies. he does that here, sometimes. those books would not have stamps in them, generally speaking.
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Chuck Does some strange things. I have heard of people getting new books that are signed before. Enjoy it.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
I was going to say maybe the bookstore ordered some in from that ST. Helen's bookshop and got a couple autographed ones or something.
And then I went St. Helen's bookshop? Mt. St. Helen's? Are they close together? Is that how the bookshop got it's name? And then I remembered the other big deal volcano thing last year was in Iceland and I got freaked out.
The St.Helens book shop is in the town of St.Helens, so that's how the book shop got its name. But the Town, which is in Oregon, and about 2 hours drive from Mt St.Helens. It was named St.Helens for "its spectacular view of the mountain." really its a piss poor mill town with a bout 2 blocks of good living.
And The book shop doesn't generally sell there signed books to other dealers, if ever.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
was it a used bookstore? someone could have just traded it in.
Good find in any event.