The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield (inscribed by McPhee to his former roommate, Princeton football quarterback George Stevens)
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. His second book. A nice association copy, inscribed crisply in the year of publication on the title page: "for George Stevens, himself a headmaster-and-a-half, best -- John McPhee, October 15, 1966." More commonly found inscribed by Boyden than by McPhee. Stevens was McPhee's former roommate at Princeton and was the quarterback for the football team where he starred alongside Heisman Trophy-winner Dick Kazmaier. McPhee writes about that team in his 2014 essay for The New Yorker, "Phi Beta Football." Stevens went on to be the headmaster of New Canaan Country School, thus the inscription, and a doubly excellent association for this book about Frank L. Boyden, headmaster of Deerfield, where McPhee spent a fifth (postgraduate) year of high school before heading to Princeton. Octavo in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A 35-page section of black and white photos at the rear of the book. Very good with a pale dampstain to the edge of the front board's lower corner (see photo), otherwise clean and sharp. In a very good dust jacket with mainly a crease to that runs the full length of the front flap at its right edge, otherwise only light rubbing. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #2274
ISBN: 0374168601
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