Gauntlet Press (with and w/out Borderlands partnership)...

[Ben Staad]

If it were autopen I think you would see the indentations.

Check out the reverse of the signed page. Typically you can see the indent in the paper where the author pressed down to sign, especially with the lesser quality of paper in trade editions.

[slayn666]

Check out the reverse of the signed page. Typically you can see the indent in the paper where the author pressed down to sign, especially with the lesser quality of paper in trade editions.

[Splync]

Crouch is likely on Twitter. Anybody want to ask him?

It'd certainly be quite a bummer if he ends up using an autopen on the Gauntlet Pines...

[RonClinton]

It certainly seems to be identical.
Mine:
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[Splync]

Mind blown. You prompted me to check my copy of the third PINES book…and my copy is signed, too! What kind of autopen sorcery is this??

Is your signed copy identical to Jeff's two copies?

[RonClinton]

Do you have a hardcover or a trade paperback? I'm going to check every trade paperback I see for the rest of my life.

Mind blown. You prompted me to check my copy of the third PINES book…and my copy is signed, too! What kind of autopen sorcery is this??

[jeffingoff]

Wow, I see what you mean. If those aren’t autopen, he has a superhuman ability for consistentcy…I don’t see any variation whatsoever. No idea what the story is behind that, but I’d also be curious to know… it’s pretty odd to see an autopen session for a midlist author and a non-Covid-era pub date.

Do you have a hardcover or a trade paperback? I'm going to check every trade paperback I see for the rest of my life.

[jeffingoff]

Those are obviously the same books Jeff.

hahahahaha Maybe this is the same signed book from a parallel universe that somehow slipped into ours so now there are two

[RonClinton]

Wow, I see what you mean. If those aren’t autopen, he has a superhuman ability for consistentcy…I don’t see any variation whatsoever. No idea what the story is behind that, but I’d also be curious to know… it’s pretty odd to see an autopen session for a midlist author and a non-Covid-era pub date.

[TacomaDiver]

Those are obviously the same books Jeff.

[jeffingoff]

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I haven’t heard of anything like that, though I suppose anything is possible. But I can’t imagine it would be economical for the publisher to bind in a (real) signature page in a mass-market tpb, and a facsimile signature without context seems unlikely as well. My suspicion is that it’s just a coincidence, and maybe there are subtle differences in your two that just aren’t readily apparent…?

Here are the digs side by side. I can’t find any variation.

[RonClinton]

I am asking here even though this has nothing to do with the Gauntlet edition of Pines: does anyone know of a facsimile or auto pen signature on the trade edition of The Last Town by Blake Crouch? I have two copies of the trade edition and the signatures are identical. Even down to where they are on the page. I really don’t think it’s possible that they are really signed but I’m not finding anything online about a facsimile signature.

I haven’t heard of anything like that, though I suppose anything is possible. But I can’t imagine it would be economical for the publisher to bind in a (real) signature page in a mass-market tpb, and a facsimile signature without context seems unlikely as well. My suspicion is that it’s just a coincidence, and maybe there are subtle differences in your two that just aren’t readily apparent…?

[jeffingoff]

I am asking here even though this has nothing to do with the Gauntlet edition of Pines: does anyone know of a facsimile or auto pen signature on the trade edition of The Last Town by Blake Crouch? I have two copies of the trade edition and the signatures are identical. Even down to where they are on the page. I really don’t think it’s possible that they are really signed but I’m not finding anything online about a facsimile signature.

[joejets]

Bradbury signings wrangled by his son David, who plays Doug on the Doug and Lemu commercials.

[Splync]

Same. That announcement came as a surprise…it’d seemed like he’d already mined just about anything publishable, so I’m curious to see what he may have unearthed (or gathered together).

I also wouldn't be surprised if the lettered edition is "signed" by Bradbury. I seem to recall Barry having bookplates signed by Bradbury. He may have used them all up, but there's always a chance that he has 26 of them waiting for a home.