The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield
by McPhee, John
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374168601
- ISBN 13
- 9780374168605
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. First edition, First Printing. Signed. 149pp. Near Fine/Fine. Clean, square, tight and unmarked in green cloth-covered boards with minimal edgewear. White glossy dustjacket is unclipped and price intact with protective mylar cover. Illustrated with many photographs. Second book from Pulitzer Prize winner and national treasure John McPhee. Signed by the author on the title page. A beautiful copy! Carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.
Synopsis
Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities." More than simply a portrait of the Headmaster of Deerfield Academy, it is a revealing look at the nature of private school education in America.
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- Bookseller
- Linden Avenue Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10003
- Title
- The Headmaster
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Illustrator
- Lawrence Ratzkin, jacket design
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIrst
- ISBN 10
- 0374168601
- ISBN 13
- 9780374168605
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Pages
- 149
- Size
- 8.25 x 5.5 inches
- Keywords
- First edition, signed, biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non Fiction; Biography & Memoirs; Autographs and signed books;
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