LOLOMI 1952 (Yakima High School Yearbook) by Patterson, Roger) - 1952

Yakima: n.p., 1952. First Thus. Hardcover. Collectible Good. Original Kingscraft Deluxe Covers yearbook with padded & decorated covers over boards. 120pp. Filled, of course, with class, staff, and activities photos, and with lots of student notes, best wishes and all that to the original owner which fill up preliminary and rear pages. 1952 was sasquatch icon Roger Patterson's senior graduation year. Little could he have known the fame he would garner over his filming a sasquatch in northern California in 1967. Little did he know that his 1966 book, Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist? would become one of the most coveted books in the Bigfoot genre. Roger's senior portrait is on page 36 along with his school activities in terms of sports, etc.: Boys glee club, baseball, football, Gold Y (whatever that is), & FFA (Future Farmer's of America), but not all in his senior year. What makes this yearbook a bit of a Patterson-related prize is that in the football section there is a photograph of him carrying the football and being tackled. Good condition. Wear to cover corners. Lower spine corner of text block bumped but not showing on padded covers. Very scarce and a must have for a serious collector of sasquatch books and Patterson material in particular.