Kossak, Andrew (Ed.); John Robert Charles Evans (Foreword); Carolyn Johnson (Illust.); Harold Huton (Asst. Ed.); Bob Hilton (Photography); Brill Friesen (Photography), et al. — The Sickle '56 ; [Brandon College Yearbook]

Brandon, Manitoba, Canada Brandon College | Printed by Leech Printing (Brandon, Manitoba) First Edition, First Printing Unpaginated [pp. 134]. 8vo., measuring 11.5" x 8.5". Textured light-blue card covers held with gold lettering, rules, and crest of the college to the lower-right margin of the front cover. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, group portraits of student, staff, faculty, etc., accompanied with many additional in-text line drawings, etc. Many charming period advertisements by various sponsoring local and national business including the T. Eaton Co., the Manitoba Power Commission, Bridgens of Winnipeg, Doig's, the Bank of Montreal, among others. Students' prose and poetry, recollections of the staff and students, short and humorous biographies of the students, accounts of notable events from throughout the academic year, details of various school clubs and school sports teams and their members, recipients of scholarships, etc. Prefaces by the school leadership (principal, etc.), a complete roster of staff, and faculty accompanied with their biographies and portraits. Exceptionally well-preserved, contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and firm spiral binding. Unrecorded in commerce. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, et al.