Lot 333

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333. JACQUELINE KENNEDY Superb signed book, her grammar school and high school yearbook, The Scribe, issued by the Holton Arms School, Washington, D.C. in 1944. The hardbound book, 85pp. 4to., bears a photograph of the 15 year-old future First Lady in the center of page 42, beside which Jackie pens a note to her popular friend Pat. In full: "Dear Pat I'm terribly jealous of you for Blackie and Dick - & I'll miss you next year - in geometry & in those lovely sessions in Peggy's room - I've really learned a lot this year! Parting is such sweet sorrow - but now I must go & slave over Latin. Love Jackie". A girl who has also inscribed the photo is pictured standing beside Jackie, but an unknown, likely very jealous fellow student has drawn an "X" across her face! On the previous page 41, Jackie is shown in a photo at center and is described in the text: "...Jackie Bouvier...looks and acts the part of a president. Stunning in looks and regal in manner, she has the respect of both young and old. Her classmates enjoy listening to her clever stories and poems that invariably include `girls gazing into crackling fires' and `beautiful horses'..." Spine torn at bottom and worn slightly at top, corners bumped, else very good. Kennedy attended Holton Arms School in Washington, D.C. for late grammar school and the first year of high school, then Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, for high school. $1,500-2,000

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