Something to Remember Me By (1991) Signed First Edition Reference

Something to Remember Me By: Three Tales (1991) collects two previously published novellas — A Theft and The Bellarosa Connection — alongside a new title novella, “Something to Remember Me By,” in a single hardcover volume. Published by Viking (Bellow returned to Viking after his sojourn with Harper & Row and Morrow), the collection provided the first hardcover publication for the two Penguin paperback originals and added a new work set in 1933 Chicago, in which a teenage boy’s errand of mercy to a dying woman leads to an evening of misadventure and loss.

First Edition Identification

Publisher: Viking Press, New York Publication date: 1991 Format: Hardcover First printing indicator: Viking first-printing statement on copyright page

Signed Copy Values

• Flat-signed: $150–$400
• Inscribed: $300–$700

Lower-mid range. The collection provides the first hardcover edition of A Theft and The Bellarosa Connection, giving it bibliographic significance beyond the individual novellas’ paperback-original status.

Market Notes

Affordable and available. The collection offers three Bellow novellas in a single signed volume, making it an efficient acquisition for collectors who want representation of Bellow’s late-career short fiction.