RE: Pigs

--- Michael J ANELLO <Michael.J.Anello@state.or.us>
wrote:
>
>
> hey tina, i'll trade you copies of salinger's
> ursinus articles (xeroxed from originals) for copies
> of "ocean of bowling balls" and "last best of peter
> pans"...c'mon!
>
>

go for it, tina.

if you don't already have the ursinus articles, they
are worth it.

chronologically, they come right after the
bibliographic item no. 1:

SALINGER, J.D., Literary Editor [View Book Image] The
Crossed Sabres 1936 Wayne PA Valley Forge Military
Academy / Telegraph Press 1936. First edition. Quarto.
Embossed buckram. Ownership signature of Kenneth W.
Duncan, numerous student and faculty inscriptions,
front hinge a little worn but still very sound, a
nice, very good plus copy. Jerome David Salinger's
senior class high school yearbook, and quite possibly
his first appearance between hardcovers. Salinger, a
Corporal in B Company of the Valley Forge Military
Academy, has Inscribed underneath his large senior
portrait (two portraits to a page) on page 96: "May I
wish you many chums & the best of luck. Jerome
Salinger." We are not sure about the attribution of
the word "chums" but that is our best guess. He is
also pictured with, or mentioned as, part of the Glee
Club, the Aviation Club, the French Club, the Mask and
Spur (the Academy dramatic society, where he is
pictured emoting hammily), and with Company B in full
dress uniform. In the Class Prophecy, "Jerry Salinger"
is seen "writing four-act melodramas for the Boston
Philharmonic Orchestra." It was at Valley Forge that
in 1936 Salinger determined to be a professional
writer. He is listed as Literary editor of this
yearbook, and has also contributed the full-page
"Class Poem," an appropriately teary-eyed and
nostalgic paean to life at the military academy his
parents forced him into in order to raise his grades.
According to Ian Hamilton, in his biography In Search
of J.D. Salinger: "Salinger was made literary editor
of the class yearbook. The Literary editor was, in
effect, the book's author, and the book itself can be
taken as Salinger's 'official' version of his years at
Valley Forge." As a member of a small class (depending
on whether one counts "Post Graduates" as part of his
class, somewhere between seventy-five and one hundred
and twenty cadets) and the sole literary contributor
to the yearbook (much of the rest of the tiny yearbook
staff of ten was devoted to business matters) it is a
virtual certainty that Hamilton is correct, and that
Salinger either contributed heavily to, or wholly
wrote the text of the yearbook. The Class Survey, The
Year (a long account of the goings on of the school
year), "June Week," The Class Prophecy, and the
accounts of many of the school clubs and teams all
seem to bear substantial traces of Salinger's
"military school" style: equal parts respectful
gee-whiz high school senior and the thinly veiled and
biting irony that eventually came to characterize
Holden Caulfield (and indeed Hamilton closely
critiques all of the above as being by Salinger). The
book is also signed by Milton Baker, the Academy's
founder and Superintendent, who was the basis for
headmaster of the Pency School in The Catcher in the
Rye, and to whom, despite his thinly veiled contempt
for the headmaster, Salinger turned to several times
for recommendations during the military phase of his
life. Also signed by Ned Davis, Salinger's close
friend who reportedly knocked Salinger out with a
punch when he became impossibly drunk and threatened
to break out of the school, and who was reportedly the
basis for Stadlater in Catcher. An exceptionally rare
copy of one of Salinger's earliest "literary"
ventures, fascinating to anyone even remotely
interested in the earliest antecedents of The Catcher
in the Rye, and additionally signed. Signed by author.
IMAGE available - Click on the picture icon at left.
First edition. Bookseller Inventory #61997 Price: US$
45000.00 (Convert Currency)

--kim

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Received on Mon Jun 2 13:38:25 2003