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Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. 32pp. Wrapper is clean and without wear. Stapled binding sound. Octavo.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 61pp. Prev owner name inked small on title page. Illustrated brown card wrap is clean and without wear. Stapled binding sound. Reduced shipping may apply. Published circa 1974. According to the author Guy Vanderhaeghe, the short story, Little David Play on Your Harp, is his third published piece of writing. And though his name is correct in the index, beneath the story title on page 18, his name is mistakenly printed as "Gary Vanderhaeghe". Contents: A Shortage of Mourners (Lois Simmie); The Atmosphere on the Peak is Rarefied (John V. Hicks); Night Games (Robert Currie); City Encounter (Dr. Robert Alms); Little David Play on Your Harp (Guy Vanderhaeghe); Every Day I Die a Little (Mary Ann Seitz); Coming Home (Dr. L.E. Horne); When the True Poet (Mick Burrs); Remember Love (Carol Machniak); Coming of Age (Ken Mitchell); The Blue Stool (Betty E. Bailey); Moving Out (Robert Currie); Country Mouse and City Mouse (Rita Schilling); Spring (William Fernuik); Waiting under Summer (C.M. Buckaway).

[circa 1974]. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 61pp. 8vo. Tobacco-brown card covers, stapled; with crease at front, upper corner. There is a name penned (very small) to the title page, as well as a light crease at the upper corner.; else is clean and crisp. Related ephemera laid in. Among other well known writers, the short story by Guy Vanderhaeghe may be his first published fiction (since been proven inaccurate by the author himself as he was published in a high school anthology and a submission to Grain in the very early 70's).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 272 pp. ; profusely illustrated with artwork, drawings, and photographs ; red decorative cloth, no dustjacket ; ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PSYCHIC OCCURENCES is preserved in this yearbook. A member of the graduating January class of 1933, GENEVA ABBOTT PATTERSON, (1916-2011) was asked at age 16 to imagine the city of St. Louis in the future, and she amazingly created a watercolor depicting the St. Louis cityscape and INCLUDED THE ST. LOUIS GATEWAY ARCH 15 YEARS BEFORE IT BECAME A CONCEPT IN THE MIND OF ITS DESIGNER, EERO SAARINEN IN 1947! The Gateway Arch was not completed until 1963. ; She added the following prophetic text spoken by Ulysses's wife Penelope from line 24 of Tennyson's Ulysses (1842): "Yet all experience is an Arch wherethro' gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades for ever, and for ever when I move" ; Geneva Abbott furthered her art studies at the Hadley Vocational School and became a member of the St. Louis Artists Guild. She worked as a commercial artist for International Shoe Company, and then turned to work as a watercolorist in St. Louis, Hilton Head, South Carolina and Vero Beach, Florida; the previous owner of the yearbook has added commentary and newspaper clippings of happenings to many of the senior class, some documenting the deaths of several in World War II, or by violence in St. Louis. Marriages of many of the women are recorded. Updated addresses and phone numbers of many former students are also added ; The yearbook has numerous articles written by students and show photographs and drawings in illustration. Subjects feature historical information about St. Louis, lists of artists, musicians with details of their lives and work are included ; all the artwork by the students reflects the then current Art Deco trends ; a very rare and historically important volume; and an exceedingly difficult-to-locate Saarinen collectible ; FINE. Book.