As a going away present a good friend of mine gave me a copy of Nelson Algren's "Chicago: City on the Make". I thanked him profusely as Algren is one of my favorite writers. It took me 3 times reading through and 2 years to realize that he gave me a SIGNED first edition of the book! I called him up and he laughed his ass off because he had been wondering when the heck I was going to notice!
Recently I picked up a 1958 copy of Bready's "The Home Team: 100 Years of Baseball In Baltimore" in a used bookstore here in Long Beach (what it was doing here I have no idea) and when I got home discovered it was signed and inscribed by the author.
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