Historic Deerfield: A Portrait of Early America

Stillinger, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0525934367 / ISBN 13: 9780525934363

Published by Dutton Studio Books, New York, 1992

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Signed (wihtout inscription) by the author on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket is very faintly sunned on spine, and has a short crease at bottom corner of rear panel. 206 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 41534

Bibliographic Details

Title: Historic Deerfield: A Portrait of Early ...

Publisher: Dutton Studio Books, New York

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hard Cover

Book Condition:Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Historic Deerfield: A Portrait of Early America by Stillinger, Elizabeth

From Library Journal:

Written with both positive affection and critical distance, this is as much a study of the 20th-century creators of the preserved/created 18th-century village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, as it is of the village itself. The evolving conception of Frank Boyden, the headmaster of Deerfield Academy, and of Helen and Henry Flynt, Deerfield is an idealized vision of early America from 1700 to 1820 that has been slowly realized since the 1930s. Two-thirds of the accessible text deals with the dozen house museums that constitute public Historic Deerfield. Interesting in itself and as a study of American collecting, this book is recommended for general collections.
- Jack Perry Brown, Art Inst. of Chicago Lib.
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