signed first edition
1981] · [New York
by ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - BRONX
[New York: Roosevelt High School, 1981]. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); publisher's blue pictorial imitation leather stamped in gilt; 168pp.; chiefly photographic illus. Some internal foxing, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the school principal Phil Smith, dated 1990. Yearbook for the recently closed high school in the Bronx, Roosevelt High School, whose predominantly black student body suffered greatly from heroin use and gang violence during the 1970s and 1980s. (Inventory #: 37384)