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Rob

As Barry says, it's most likely a case of two bidders not being aware of the number of copies of this book that are in the market. When this book is placed in an auction with a number of rare Negro League items, the bidders may have incorrectly concluded that the book was rarer than Hake's estimate and description (which was not way out of line at $100-200) edited to add: not way out of line at $100, but $200 is indeed stretching it.