Handbook of Erasmus Hall High School

Brooklyn, NY: Erasmus Hall High School, n.d.

First printing thus. Paperback. 170 pp., 16mo. Seventh edition. Not dated, but internal evidence suggests most likely from the late 1930s. The student handbook of this historic school, founded in 1786. The first secondary school to be chartered by the New York State Regents, Erasmus Hall counted among its many famous alumni Elaine DeKooning, Neil Diamond, Bobby Fischer, Lainie Kazan, Roger Kahn, Bernard Malamud, Beverly Sills, Robert Silverberg, Mickey Spillane, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Streisand, Eli Wallach, and Mae West. Page edges age-darkened, not affecting text; some corners creased; first page coming away from staples, but binding sound. In soiled and edgeworn wrappers. Uncommon. Good. Item #3356

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