Anyone who has ever seen Clive Barker at a signing will have crossed their fingers and hoped that, to accompany the signature, Barker will deface the clean pages with a sketch.
We are lucky enough to own several of the sketches in this section, but the majority have been sent to us by fellow collectors or we've seen them offered for sale over the years. We're always looking for more examples of Clive's art and would love to hear from you with images of your own treasured examples of Clive's artwork.

When I am drawing something in people's books, knowing that I have 20 seconds to do it, I have a gallery of 12 or maybe 15 things which I will do variations of. If someone was to say, 'Gee, I really would like a picture of Buckingham Palace,' I'd be fucked!! because I don't have the kind of shorthand, you know, to make that work, so there's a certain number of things - Cocteau taught me this, Cocteau is the great master of having just a few lines...he painted fawns, he painted satyrs' heads, beautiful young men with snub noses and long, elegant eyes that came up over and over again. Picasso does the same thing, I mean the shorthand...
Clive Barker - Leitmotifs And Dark Beliefs by Phil & Sarah Stokes, 24th September 1999

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Inside a US copy of Sacrament. Dedicated "To Elaine", undated.		Inside a copy of the US Abarat ARC. Dedicated "For Phil and Sarah" and dated 22 April 2002.



	Inside a copy of the US Abarat II hardback. Dedicated "To Devin". Undated, but signed 30 October 2004.



Inside a copy of the US Thief Of Always hardback. Dedicated "To Nathan" and dated 28 November 1992.		Inside a copy of the US Abarat ARC. Dedicated "For Cathy". Undated.



Inside a copy of the US Imajica hardback, undated.		Inside a copy of the UK Weaveworld hardback. Dedicated "To Janet, Very Best Wishes, Merry Christmas!" and dated 11 November 1987.



Inside a US copy of Incarnations. Dedicated "For Michael". Undated.		Inside a copy of the US limited Galilee. Dedicated "To Phil and Sarah", undated



Inside a US copy of Imajica. Dedicated "For Robert", undated.		Inside a US copy of Everville. Dedicated "For Cheryl", undated.



Inside a copy of the US Essential Clive Barker hardback. Dedicated and dated 7 December 1999. Undated.		Inside a copy of the US Cabal hardback. Dedicated "To Dave". Undated.



Inside a copy of the US Everville hardback. Dedicated "To Christy". Dated 1994.		Inside a copy of the US Everville hardback. Dedicated "To Elizabeth". Undated.



Inside a copy of the US Abarat paperback. Dedicated "To Sunn". Undated.		Inside a copy of the US Imajica hardback. Dedicated "To Sean and Dave". Undated.

Original Sketches Inside Books

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