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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition, number 61 of a limted printing of 100. Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 8 inches, original green cloth, 107 pp, illustrated with frontispiece (photograph) . Near fine, no dustjacket. Rubbed at corners and head and foot of spine, minor shelf wear, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. A collection of letters written from September, 1931 through February 21, 1934, during his freshman to junior years, by Americo Secondo MeMasi, one of the seven fraternity brothers killed by carbon monoxide from a malfunctioning furnace in the house of Theta Chi Fraternity on the night of Fenruary 25, 1934. The building was demolished in the 1950s, and a new one erected on the site, which is still allegedly haunted by the ghosts of the victims, with that of Mr DeMasi having been seen and heard to speak, and later identified upon viewing a photo. In life he was a graduate of Flushing High School, and a student at Dartmouth College, and the letters, addressed to his parents and three women, including Ms Gill, the editor, Jeannette Renhall and Ella Brown, present a nice picture of undergraduate life there at the time. Memorials; autobiography; Ivy League Schools; hanuted houses; Italian-American. …