June 6, 2008

Don't Toss That Musty Yearbook

Hang onto that yearbook. If one of your classmates becomes famous, it may be worth something someday.

The online bookseller AbeBooks recently compiled a list of the most expensive yearbooks ever sold on its site. Here are the top 10:

1. 1921 Ole Miss Yearbook  — $4,500 Contains the poem "Nocturne" and some drawings by William Faulkner, who had just returned as a student at the University of Mississippi after World War I.

2. 1937 Lincolnian  — $750 A