What's rarer than a Yoko Ono first edition?

A Yoko second edition.

This is why it's a good idea to make as much as possible with that initial printing.

Yoko just Tweeted that she signed every copy of her new book, and gave a website link. Yeah:

All I can say is that she's more reasonable than Ringo. And more entertaining, too.

I think Ringo charged far more for his book of snapshots of Liverpool. IF I'M BEING HONEST, a book of Yoko's poems is a lot more intellectually stimulating than photos of Ringo's face.

In her Tweet she seemed proud and humble about signing "all 1500 copies" of the book. Hey, when a copy costs, what, about $500 American dollars, why NOT sign 'em??

These days, an author damn well BETTER sign books to get anyone interested.

Norman Mailer signed every copy of the first edition of "The Time of Our Time." List price? $39.50. And the fucking book is 1200 pages! He and his publisher knew that without the signature, people just weren't going to care that much. And he was, at the time, the greatest living writer in America.

Guess what, a signed copy on Ebay is selling, buy it now, for $30.00

Another new book of Yoko's, "See Hear," is going for $300 "or best offer" on eBay. Which does say something, doesn't it? A book signed by the widow of John Lennon is worth a LOT more than Norman Mailer or any of his contemporaries. This includes those leather-bound "Franklin Library" deals. Jeez, even a signed leather-bound on "Naked and the Dead," Mailer's best known tome, isn't going for more than $100 on eBay, and some signed, authenticated leather-bound novels of his go for a third of that. Not much action on Philip Roth, Herman Wouk or Joyce Carol Oates either.

The surprise is that Yoko figures to sell 1500 at such a hefty price.

Can we expect autographed books to ever make back the price paid? Not often, not likely. Milennials don't collect books. They'd rather have a "selfie" with a star they meet, not an autograph. Maybe an autographed collector card of some asshole from "Game of Toilets" might tempt 'em to Paypal a few hundred bucks, but a book of poems or art photos from an 82 year-old Japanese woman who was married to some guy who was once in some obscure group called The Beatles? What...ever.