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Remember Me When This You See — Vintage Scholastic Autograph Verse Collection, 1960s — Field Find
Remember Me When This You See — Vintage Scholastic Autograph Verse Collection, 1960s — Field Find
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THE FIND
A vintage Scholastic paperback from the 1960s — Remember Me When This You See: A Collection of Autograph Verses — the kind of small book that lived in a school bag and got passed around at the end of the year. Found in fair vintage condition; sold as-is.
WHAT WE KNOW
Scholastic Book Services produced inexpensive paperbacks for the school market throughout the 1950s–1970s, distributed through classroom book clubs that introduced generations of American children to reading. This title collects autograph verses — the rhymes and inscriptions that filled the back pages of yearbooks and autograph books throughout the mid-20th century. Cover shows wear and some surface peeling consistent with age; interior condition to be assessed from photographs. Sold as-is.
THE STORY
The autograph verse is a distinctly American schoolroom tradition — short, rhyming, often funny, occasionally sincere. Remember me when this you see is one of the oldest and most enduring of the form, a phrase that appears in autograph books going back to the 19th century. A Scholastic collection of these verses is a small time capsule of mid-century childhood — the language kids used to say goodbye at the end of a school year.
WHY WE CHOSE IT
It's a specific, evocative object — the kind of book that triggers an immediate memory for anyone who grew up with Scholastic book orders. The subject matter is inherently nostalgic without being sentimental. A quiet find with a lot of resonance.
ABOUT THIS PIECE
Publisher: Scholastic Book Services
Era: 1960s
Condition: Fair vintage condition — cover wear and surface peeling noted, sold as-is. Please review all photographs carefully.
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Quantity: 1 — one of a kind.
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Field Notes
Recovered and preserved as discovered.
Marks, textures, and imperfections remain untouched.