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Top Prices Obtained for "Celebrity" High School Yearbooks Past Two Weeks

$1999.00 A set of Carrie Underwood's school yearbooks from K-12 (missing 6th grade) - Only one bid and I assume they are ardent Carrie Underwood fans, or perhaps her family. Huge price to pay for such recent vintage yearbooks and it is not like she is Janis Joplin??

$625.00 Rod Serling Senior Year - I guess reports of big spending for the Christmas Holiday season are true as this is a monster price for someone to pay. Have seen many sell in the $75-$150 range for Twilight Zone fans.

$511.01 Robert Redford/Don Drysdale JUNIOR year - However, this one had an almost full-page inscription on the inside back cover from Robert Redford to the original female owner.

$510 John F. Kennedy Senior Year - Well, interesting set of values as we go from Carrie Underwood's books for almost $2000 to a relatively scarce John F. Kennedy Senior Year Choate book for $510. The spine was naked and the boards were beaten up, but the pages were wonderful and the binding was still fairly tight. There is a happy collector who truly believes that a book is not always judged by its covers!!

$510 Justin Bieber 8th Grade BUT this was inscribed and signed by him to the original female owner with a heart. I am sure some father (or grandfather) just bought his little girl her Christmas present; however the juxtaposition at the same price as a JFK book again makes it seem very out of place.

$500 Jean Harlow 3rd Grade - She appeared in a group photo (which I helped both the seller and buyer confirm), quite lovely and easy to spot. Very few of these soft-covered booklets from a small tony private school in 1920 still exist. Her name at that time was Harlean Carpenter.

$399.99 Louis Brooks Sophomore Year - From that same era and geography is Louise Brooks' Sophomore yearbook (her last year attending school before embarking on her showbiz career......not that different today as the kids sleep in cars out in California with their moms waiting for an audition call at the age of 13 these days!)

No doubt that $$ have loosened up in the past 4-6 weeks. I hope to post again before the Holidays, but if not, I wish all of you a VERY HAPPY and FULFILLING Holiday (and I guess it will be filling at least) and a SUPER 2012!! If you ever need any help with these items, just e-mail to me directly and I will respond promptly.