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I had never seen this book before, but it popped up in an eBay search and sounded interesting, so I placed a low bid and won it for a grand total of $12.50 shipped...
To my surprise and delight, when it arrived, it was not only autographed by the author, Alison Inches, but also by Dave Goelz and the late Jerry Juhl.
However, I think the most touching part is the paragraph of inscription from a grandmother to her granddaughter, when she gave this book on Christmas 2001, signing herself as Gram E and also signing for the dog, with a drawn pawprint beside it.
I pulled up the auction listing to see if I had overlooked the part about it being autographed, and chuckled to see that the seller listed it as "Like New to VG! Clean, tight binding, no notable shelf wear, no dogear page corners, no handwriting, no underlining, no stains, no spine crease."
No handwriting? Four people (and a dog) wrote across the front two pages! Oh well, since it's a book of hand-drawn sketches and lettering, perhaps the seller just didn't spot it at a casual glance.
Anyway, I'm ecstatic to own it, since my only other Muppet autograph was a Frank Oz 8 x 10 that I got via SASE during my Star Wars autograph days... and yet somehow I alsoget sad, wondering what Gram E would think of the granddaughter parting with it, or what sad circumstances might have befallen the girl.
Dearth
To my surprise and delight, when it arrived, it was not only autographed by the author, Alison Inches, but also by Dave Goelz and the late Jerry Juhl.
However, I think the most touching part is the paragraph of inscription from a grandmother to her granddaughter, when she gave this book on Christmas 2001, signing herself as Gram E and also signing for the dog, with a drawn pawprint beside it.
I pulled up the auction listing to see if I had overlooked the part about it being autographed, and chuckled to see that the seller listed it as "Like New to VG! Clean, tight binding, no notable shelf wear, no dogear page corners, no handwriting, no underlining, no stains, no spine crease."
No handwriting? Four people (and a dog) wrote across the front two pages! Oh well, since it's a book of hand-drawn sketches and lettering, perhaps the seller just didn't spot it at a casual glance.
Anyway, I'm ecstatic to own it, since my only other Muppet autograph was a Frank Oz 8 x 10 that I got via SASE during my Star Wars autograph days... and yet somehow I alsoget sad, wondering what Gram E would think of the granddaughter parting with it, or what sad circumstances might have befallen the girl.
Dearth
