Wanted: Extreme bibliophiles with deep pockets

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Who says those wacky predictions in high school yearbooks don’t amount to much? On the auction block: a copy of Ernest Hemingway’s 1917 senior yearbook from Oak Park, Ill., which includes several photographic portraits of the young man, including one graced by the quote, ‘None are to be found more clever than Ernie.’

The yearbook is expected to fetch between $600 and $900 at a sale this Thursday by New York’s Swann Galleries.

Other items in the auction, which focuses on 19th and 20th century literature, include Mark Twain’s signed copy of ‘The Life, Times and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester’ by Henry Dircks (in case you’ve misplaced your own) as well as first editions by such literary luminaries as P.G. Wodehouse, Truman Capote and Kurt Vonnegut. Also on offer: a set of Oscar Wilde-themed playing cards. (None, apparently, on the importance of being cleverer than Ernie.)

Orli Low