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The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield
by McPhee, John
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. Octavo, 149 pp. (with Photographs from p. 111). First Printing. VG+ (shelfwear at extremities, stain to upper board) in a VG unclipped dustjacket, wrinkled and light vertical crease, with shelfwear and a touch of discoloration at edges. SIGNED by McPhee on the title page; INSCRIBED by Frank L. Boyden to Sid on ffep (whose ownership stamp appears opposite on pastedownhe graduated Deerfield in 1932, served in WWII, and worked as an advertising executive in New York before dying in 1998); and INSCRIBED to Sidney by Helen Boyden on p. 137 under a photo of her teaching at Deerfield. McPhees second book, a stirring portrait of Boyden, who was Headmaster of the prestigious Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts from 1902-1968. Scarce signed by McPhee and by both Frank and Helen Boyden.
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
- Crow Hop Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30
- Title
- The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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Crow Hop Rare Books
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Kennesaw, Georgia
About Crow Hop Rare Books
Established in 2018, Crow Hop Rare Books sells a variety of unusual and hard to find material, including photo albums, vernacular material, signed/inscribed first editions, African Americana, ephemera, and midcentury Americana.
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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