Foreword Payson Smith (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Springfield, Massachsetts: Springfield Classical High School , 1960. A square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is lightly rubbed. NOT price clipped (3.50). Pages are clean. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in two-tone blue cloth. Silver lettering on the spine and front cover is still bright and shiny. Illustrated with frontispiece photographic portrait of the author. Endpaper maps of eastern New England by Charles J. DiMascola. Autobiography. A look back at years in a district school in North Hanover, MA; his college years at Brown University; as a teacher in Presque Isle, Maine; as a high school principal in Caribou and Lewiston, Maine; and then in Chicopee and Chelsea, Massachusetts; and as principal of Springfield Classical High School for 35 years, 1910-1945. From the author: "These TALES cover the eighty years of my connection with the schools as pupil, student, teacher, principal and interested observer. They are first of all the story of my education and professional career. They also aim to give a picture of a country boyhood under conditions unknown to this generation." . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 207pp.