PEN American Center will auction off first edition copies of seventy-five books and works of art that are annotated or revised, respectively, by their original authors and artists. The auction will take place Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at Christie’s New York; until then, the works-cum-artifacts will be on public display at Christie’s beginning Monday, November 17, 2014.

Featured authors include Philip Roth, Lydia Davis, Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz, George Saunders, Robert A. Caro, and Marilynne Robinson. Their annotations include notes, essays, sketches, photos, and letters to the reader; artists, on the other hand, had the option of remaking a monograph or an important art piece. Check out the complete list of auction items, as well as the authors’ reflections on rereading and annotating their earlier works.

“Rereading Portnoy’s Complaint forty-five years on, I am shocked and pleased,” Philip Roth wrote of his earlier classic in The New York Times. “Shocked that I could have been so reckless, pleased that I was so reckless.”

Robert A. Caro, Paul Auster, and Jane Smiley also discussed the process of rereading and annotating their own books in a video by The New York Times. Learn more about the auction.