The Sanders Autograph Price Guide 7th Edition

Sanders Autograph Price Guide is the world's only comprehensive autograph price guide, covering sports, entertainment, music, history and politics, literature, science and more. Prices have been carefully compiled from actual auction transactions and sales listings from reputable autograph dealers. For the first time, sports autograph prices are included in this guide, where before sports was in its own edition. Sanders Guide has been the world's leading autograph pricing authority for over two decades.

The world's leading authority on autograph prices. Find out what your autographs are worth, you might be richer than you think! Over 80,000 prices are featured, as well as extensive advice on autograph collecting by experts in the field. A massive book

The world's leading authority on autograph prices. Find out what your autographs are worth, you might be richer than you think! Over 80,000 prices are featured, as well as extensive advice on autograph collecting by experts in the field. Special edition is a limited, numbered hardcover. A massive book

Richly illustrated with nearly 1,000 examples of both autographs and forgeries, this new and expanded edition includes signature studies of all Hall of Famers from the 19th century to the present. Collectors can compare signatures to the examples to determine the genuineness of autographs. Shoeless Joe and the rest of the Black Sox are explored in depth, along with Roger Maris, Gil Hodges and the top 50 non-Hall of Fame autographs. A new price guide examines values of various signed mediums. A market population grid lists rare and seldom seen signatures.

Collecting autographs is a time-honored avocation that has exploded in popularity in recent years, creating a new industry with millions of autographed items for sale online. Coveted signatures include those of United States presidents, Civil War officers, World War II heroes, classical music composers and baseball stars. It has been estimated that 90 percent of historical autographs on the market today are forgeries. This book is a definitive guide to signature authentication for experts and beginners alike. Numerous illustrations of both genuine and forged signatures are included, from Ty Cobb to Abraham Lincoln to Isaac Newton to Neil Armstrong. Detailed descriptions of common forgeries are given, enabling collectors to make direct comparisons.

In this fascinating book, Steve Skiena and Charles Ward bring quantitative analysis to bear on ranking and comparing historical reputations by aggregating the traces of millions of opinions, just as Google ranks webpages. They present rankings of more than one thousand of history's most significant people in science, politics, entertainment, and all areas of human endeavor.