Up in the Old Hotel (1992) Signed First Edition Reference

Up in the Old Hotel (Pantheon, 1992) gathers four of Mitchell’s out-of-print books — McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould’s Secret — into a single volume that immediately established itself as one of the essential American prose collections. The book’s publication was itself a literary event — it brought Mitchell’s work back into print after decades of obscurity and introduced him to a new generation of readers.

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed first in jacket: $50–$150
• Unsigned first in jacket: $15–$30

Mitchell’s privacy and reclusiveness make signed copies genuinely uncommon — he did very few public events for this book.