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Up for sale is a rare, original 1944 edition of "The Asburian," the official college yearbook for Asbury College located in Wilmore, Kentucky.
This historic World War II-era volume documents campus life, faculty, senior, junior, sophomore, and freshman classes during a pivotal year in American history. It includes sports teams, musical ensembles, student clubs, and local advertisements from the mid-1940s. The book features a highly unique and heavily textured blue faux-leather/vulcanized cover bordered by a striking embossed silver header and side margin with stylized vintage typography.
Condition Details:
Cover: The heavy texturing on the blue section is clean and deeply defined. The silver embossed borders show typical light vintage surface scuffing and minor corner rubbing as shown. There is a small, modern removable paper identification label ("Asbury College") affixed to the top right silver border.
Spine & Binding: The binding is structurally secure, tight, and sound.
Interior Pages: Pages are clean and crisp with clear printing and high-contrast historical photography. (Note: Mention if there are any personal signatures, student well-wishes, or structural flaws like loose pages).
A fantastic historical artifact for WWII home-front collectors, Asbury alumni, or regional Kentucky genealogical researchers.
