1980 and newer signature:

Farmer's most famous, if not infamous, pen name is Kilgore Trout. Don't buy that signed copy of VENUS ON THE HALF-SHELL unless the signature looks like this. We have two magazines and four books signed "Kilgore Trout" and all have the distinctive K and T:


Do you have a book signed by Phil with an interesting inscription? If so please send it in like these below:

Mark Abrahamson shares this terrific sample which includes a sketch of a trout:


Phil's longtime friend Bob Barrett shares these three inscriptions:

In A FEAST UNKNOWN


In THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER

Farmer collector Russell Wright shares his collection of humorously inscribed books:

An association copy of THE GREEN ODDYSEY inscribed to Forrest J Ackerman:


An inscription about the publisher in TONGUES OF THE MOON:

An inscription about the publisher in A PRIVATE COSMOS:

Three inscriptions on two pages in DOWN IN THE BLACK GANG:

An association copy of DOC SAVAGE: HIS APOCALYPTIC LIFE inscribed to editor David Hartwell:

A postcard and an inscribed copy of THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER:

An association copy of THE GRAND ADVENTURE inscribed to Robert Block:

An association copy of ESCAPE FROM LOKI inscribed to science fiction bibliographer Sheldon Jaffery:

An inscribed copy of NOTHING BURNS IN HELL with a reference to Y2K:

Mitch West shares items from his collection, a book, a magazine, and even a manuscript:

An Essex House printing of IMAGE OF THE BEAST:

"The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod" from the adult magazine Broadside
(with a literary story in the midst of trash):

Manuscript copy of "The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol
(This is one of my favorite stories, also of the Playboy editors):