The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: ERIC PFEIFFER NEWMAN died Wednesday, November 15, 2017, at his home in Clayton at the age of 106.
Show of hands - who has pieces with the Newman provenance? I do, but I didn't know they did until I got them.
A true collector and a big loss for the Numismatic community. I agree with @V. Kurt Bellman , signed books are really cool. And I’m guessing there fewer signed books than notes with his renowned collection noted on the holder. He will be missed. Prayers for his family.
I've never understood why people thought a book more valuable because of a signature. I guess it is the same sort of thing as when people will pay more for an encapsulated coin when it bears the signature of someone who is supposed to be famous.
You're right! I'll call my mom and tell her the Profiles in Courage autographed by Kennedy is not very valuable and she should give it to me; same probably for the Salinger Catcher In The Rye; and probably all the Perry Mason novels my dad had in his library.
I have many, especially signed by R.S. Yeoman; Ken Bressett & many others and some dups that I'll eventually sell off.
My kid helped me at the ANA Philly 2012 show with the local volunteer effort. We got him the deluxe leather 2012 Red Book which he got signed by everyone named on the cover and even some autographs inside that applied to certain sections. I also have the signed set of hardbound Eliasberg sale catalogs.
Or, indeed, why they think a book more valuable because it's a first edition. Why should something be more valuable just because it's harder to find? And why are we on this forum again?
Of course, sakata could have stopped his post after the first three words and been as informative - "I've never understood." But yeahhh, dude has "common sense", right? Uh huh, yalp.
The collecting of First Editions has gone on since the 18th C., and will continue long after everyone here has found their own peace. Autographed copies of those are collected as well, with values increased based on the scarcity of the autograph. A Salinger autograph makes the mentioned volume more valuable, with the appropriate value best found at a major book auction. Coins attributed to great collections have an additional premium, as well. All of us have our own particular quirks when it comes to collecting, IMHO. It's up to each individual to decide what they want to collect. If it gives them pleasure, it is good for them. If no one else cares, it will have little value, but, so what, if the collector enjoyed putting it together.... Que sera, sera.....
There, I'm in complete agreement. I don't see where a premium is warranted, and I've read many threads about the misuse of the phrase on questionable slabs.
