8199 - Mick Jagger Signed Grammar School Book - The Highroads Dictionary

Mick Jagger Signed Grammar School Book - The Highroads Dictionary Signed book: The Highroads Dictionary. Hardcover, 4.25 x 6.25, 620 pages (missing the first ten pages). Signed on the front pastedown end page in blue ballpoint, "M. Jagger," writing his form, "5A," and the date, "9.9.58," in the adjacent columns, amidst more than a dozen other pupils who used the book between 1947 and 1976. In good to very good condition, with heavy wear to covers and binding, including six binder hole stickers affixed to the front board, some loss and a tear to the lower left corner of the front pastedown, and the first ten pages—plus title and copyright pages—missing. Dated September 9, 1958, this remarkable schoolboy autograph dates to Mick Jagger's years at Dartford Grammar School in Kent, where he studied from 1954 to 1961. Just 15 years old when he signed this dictionary, Jagger was a promising student who would pass seven O-level examinations in 1959 before gaining admission to the London School of Economics in 1961. That same year, a chance reunion with childhood friend Keith Richards at Dartford railway station rekindled their friendship through a shared passion for American blues and rhythm and blues, setting the stage for the formation of the Rolling Stones in 1962. A fascinating relic of Jagger's pre-fame adolescence, this well-used classroom dictionary preserves his signature nearly four years before the emergence of one of rock music's most legendary bands.