Exeter, New Hampshire: Phillips Exeter Academy, 1944.
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. First and only edition. Quarto. 221, [2]pp. Grey decorated cloth. Endpapers a little foxed, else fine. Senior class yearbook of George Plimpton. Plimpton was very active, or even hyperactive in class affairs, and appears in several places, including his senior class picture, the baseball team, the band, dramatic performances, and various other clubs and activities. Additionally, the keen-eyed can discern pictures of author John Knowles, a member of the Class of 1945 (who nevertheless graduated early in October of 1944) in photos of the Glee Club and swimming team. Knowles based *A Separate Peace*, his classic novel of prep school life, on his experiences at Phillips Exeter. Poet Donald Hall was a Freshman in 1944, but as befitting the status of the lowly freshman, is not easily identified.
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