Bennett Cerf Autograph

Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 – August 27, 1971) was an American writer, publisher, and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his weekly television appearances for over 17 years on the panel game show What's My Line? More about Bennett Cerf

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Current items with a signature of Bennett Cerf

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thumbnailBennett Cerf Signed Autographed Book RIDDLE-DE-DEE 1962~Illustrated Tomi Ungerer$19.99logo
thumbnailHumor Jokes Stories MCM Laughter Incorporated Bennett Cerf Signed 1955$9.22logo
Cerf was born on May 25, 1898, in Manhattan, New York City, to a Jewish family of Alsatian and German ethnicity. Cerf's father Gustave Cerf was a lithographer; his mother, Frederika Wise, was heiress to a tobacco-distribution fortune. She died when Bennett was 15; shortly afterward, her brother Herbert moved into the Cerf household and became a strong literary and social influence on the teenager.

Cerf graduated from Townsend Harris High School in Queens in 1916, the same public school as publisher Richard Simon, author Herman Wouk, and playwright Howard Dietz. He spent his teenage years at 790 Riverside Drive, an apartment building in Washington Heights, which was home to two of his friends who became prominent as adults: Howard Dietz and Hearst newspapers financial editor Merryle Rukeyser. Cerf received his Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College of Columbia University (1919) and his Litt.B. (1920) from its School of Journalism. Read even more about Bennett Cerf at Wikipedia

Traded items with a signature of Bennett Cerf

The most expensive item with a signature of Bennett Cerf (Cover Of Time Magazine Signed Autograph By Bennett Cerf) was sold in August 2019 for $699.99 while the cheapest item (Bennett Cerf signed postcard 1965) found a new owner for $1.00 in March 2019. The month with the most items sold (2) was January 2009 with an average selling price of $12.01 for an autographed item of Bennett Cerf. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2024 with $59.13 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $2.42 was April 2014. In average, an autographed item from Bennett Cerf is worth $15.25.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Bennett Cerf were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

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thumbnail1957, Reading for Pleasure Chosen & With an Intro by Bennett Cerf, 1st, SIGNED!$35.00logo
thumbnailAutographed 8x10 Photo Bennett Cerf writer, publisher, Co-Founder Random House$19.99logo
thumbnailBennett Cerf 1948 Typed Letter Signed To Sherman Billingsley Stork Club Owner$15.50logo
thumbnailBennett Cerf 1962 Signed Autograph Letter Regarding William Faulkner$39.00logo
thumbnailBENNETT CERF Hand Signed Autographed Photo w/COA - AUTHOR - RANDOM HOUSE$24.99logo
thumbnailBennett Cerf's - The Laugh's On Me 1959 HCDJ Doubleday SIGNED$14.95logo
thumbnailLaugh Day by Bennett Cerf Inscription Signed & Dated also Autograph Danny Thomas$29.99logo
thumbnailLaugh Day: Bennett Cerf. Doubleday & Co. SIGNED. Doubleday. 1965$26.25logo
thumbnailOriginal Signed Autographed Cut Bennett Cerf Died 1971 Whats My Line$10.50logo
thumbnailThree AUTOGRAPHED original books By Bennett Cerf, What's My LIne? Panelist$92.00logo