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THE HEADMASTER. FRANK L. BOYDEN, OF DEERFIELD
by McPHEE, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Owner name and date on the front free endpaper. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name and date on the front free endpaper. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. Author's second book, a biography of a remarkable educator. Illustrated with photographs.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003552
- Title
- THE HEADMASTER. FRANK L. BOYDEN, OF DEERFIELD
- Author
- McPHEE, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Owner name and date on the front free endpaper. Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1966)
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions, Deerfield Academy, Teaching, Modern Firsts, John McPhee, Massachusetts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Teaching;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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