Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Richard Powers's High School Yearbook


This struck me as a very unusual item for the collector of Richard Powers material who just plain has too much money: a copy of his high school yearbook, plus some issues of the high school magazine, for $1,750. (Click the title link above to see the item for sale via abebooks.com).
If anyone buys this, I hope you'll let us know if it contains any surprises!
The item description says

Screwbound printed yellow binder. Quarto. The wrapperbound year book, The Kalibre, bound with ten of twelve possible issues of the school newspaper, The Barblet (lacking issues seven and ten), for author Richard Powers' (here referred to mostly as Rick Powers) senior year of high school. Slight tears in the yellow cloth binder, some pages well-thumbed, student inscriptions in the year book, and a couple of leaves loose but sound, a very good example. Powers is pictured on at least three pages in the year book, twice in band pictures, and once in the National Honor Society, although curiously, he is not represented by a senior class picture. According to biographies of Powers he spent much of his high school time in Thailand, and only returned to DeKalb to finish high school, and was perhaps thus not present for the photo. He also appears at least three times in the issues of The Barblet, twice playing the cello, and once at a National Honor Society Assembly (we have by no means exhaustively searched the bound volume and may have missed other appearances). According to our research, Powers is the second most important graduate of the high school, after supermodel Cindy Crawford.

I love that: "second most important graduate...after Cindy Crawford."!

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