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	<title>Signed By Author</title>
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	<description>The home of signed first editions &#038; collectible books</description>
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		<title>Cookery books signed by Julia Child selling like hotcakes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst Julia Child (1912-2006) may have turned American cuisine on its head through what was, in the 1960s, the revolutionary idea of introducing the ideals of the French cooking school to middle America, she was until very recently, far less of a household name in the UK and Europe. Her award-winning cookbooks couple with numerous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.signedbyauthor.com/2009/11/08/cookery-books-signed-by-julia-child-selling-like-hotcakes/</link>
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		<title>Farewell to Frank McCourt 1930 &#8211; 2009</title>
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Sadly, 2009 sees the passing of another Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Frank McCourt, the Irish-American teacher who shot to world-wide fame as the author of Angela’s Ashes, a biographical account of the extreme poverty and brutal living conditions of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland during the Depression, died on 19 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.signedbyauthor.com/2009/07/21/frank-mccourt/</link>
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		<title>Kindle&#8230;signed by author!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's an interesting story in the New York Times today...apparently the advent of reading devices such as Kindle doesn't mean fans can't have their favourite book signed by the author. Apparently people are now queuing at book signings with electronic versions of their favourite titles and authors have taken to signing their Kindle!

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		<link>http://www.signedbyauthor.com/2009/06/17/kindle-signed-by-author/</link>
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		<title>JG Ballard 1930-2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[J G (James Graham) Ballard, the British novelist, short story writer and major exponent of the New Wave in science fiction writing, died yesterday aged 78.
JG Ballard, originally uploaded by matthetube.
He was born in the International Settlement in Shanghai, China and later became a Japanese concentration camp internee during the war, an experience he explored [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.signedbyauthor.com/2009/04/20/jg-ballard-1930-2009/</link>
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		<title>Antarctica signed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Mikhail Gorbachev in Charity Auction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio continues to support environmental causes by contributing items to a charity auction with all proceeds going to Global Green USA.
The book Antarctica: The Global Warning by Sebastian Copeland, has been signed by both Mikhail Gorbachev (who wrote the forward), and Leonardo DiCaprio (who contributed the book's introduction).
This amazing hardcover [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.signedbyauthor.com/2009/04/19/antarctica-signed-by-leonardo-dicaprio-and-mikhail-gorbachev-in-charity-auction/</link>
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		<title>Signed First Edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in Charity Auction!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Children With Aids Charity has listed a UK first edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows signed by the author, J.K. Rowling on Celeb2nds.com. The charity was organized in 1992 to help infants and children affected by HIV/AIDS maintain a good quality of life.
On the bidding page, there are images of the signed page [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.signedbyauthor.com/2009/02/17/signed-first-edition-of-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-in-charity-auction/</link>
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		<title>John Updike 1932 – 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Updike, one of America's most prominent contemporary novelists and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for both Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest, died yesterday aged 76.




  
    
    

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		<link>http://www.signedbyauthor.com/2009/01/28/john-updike-1932-%e2%80%93-2009/</link>
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		<title>Signed special edition Spider-man starring Obama!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writer Zeb Wells and artist Todd Nuack signed copies of the special edition of the Marvel comic Spider-Man (which sees the superhero teaming up with Obama) at a free book-signing at The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach yesterday.



  
    
    

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		<link>http://www.signedbyauthor.com/2009/01/22/signed-special-edition-spider-man-starring-obama/</link>
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		<title>Tom Hanks book signing in his local store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Hanks made a recent appearance at an independent book store - Village Books in Pacific Palisades, California - in order to help raise the profile of his local book store which is struggling to stay afloat (fans will remember his role as a book chain owner hell bent on squashing Meg Ryan's small book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.signedbyauthor.com/2008/12/27/tom-hanks-book-signing-in-his-local-store/</link>
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		<title>Signed by David Grossman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Grossman was in Italy recently promoting the Italian edition of Ishà borachat mibsorà  which has recently been published by Mondadori  under the title A un cerbiatto somiglia il mio amore  (its English title is A Woman Flees the News) .
Whilst in Rome, Nicola Zingaretti president of the Province of Rome, also presented the author with the Provincia Capitale, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.signedbyauthor.com/2008/11/30/signed-by-david-grossman/</link>
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