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  Rare 1949 Black and Gold Fairmount High School Yearbook Signed by American Cultural Icon James Dean

  DEAN, James.

  James Dean Signed 1949 Black and Gold Fairmount High School Yearbook.

  Fairmount, Indiana: Published by the Journalism Department, 1949.

  Rare original 1949 Black and Gold Fairmount High School yearbook signed by James Dean. Imperial octavo, original gold faux-leather embossed binding with "Black & Gold '49", title page vignette, frontispiece, unpaginated, with black and white photographs throughout. Signed by James Dean in pencil above his photograph on The Debate Club page. By all accounts, the teenage James Dean was a hardworking student and well-liked among his peers. This copy is signed "Jim Dean" next to a mention of his traveling to Longmont, CO for the National Forensic League's national championship, where he placed sixth in Dramatic Declamation with a performance of Charles Dickens's "A Madman's Manuscript." Dean is also pictured separately in uniform as guard for the Fairmount Quakers basketball team and in costume as Frankenstein's monster in a performance which "grotesquely 'scared the wits' out of the audience." A touching view of the small Hoosier community that raised one of Hollywood's most iconic figures. In near fine condition with rubbing and thumb soiling.

  Price: $4,200.00     Item Number: 149915

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