BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. Very good+ (very light edgewear at spine, somewhat "dusty" page edges, otherwise fine) in price-clipped and heavily edgeworn dust jacket with one-inch chunk missing at top of spine (put in protective mylar to prevent further deterioration and improve appearance; quite passable now). Biography of William Allan Neilson, long-time president of Smith College (1917-1939) and… Read more about this item

Northampton, Massachusetts: The Hampshire Bookshop, 1947. Good+ (soiled covers, especially stained rear cover and spine, light edgewear) without dust jacket. Published shortly after Neilson's death, this is full of praise and wit, a nice accompaniment to Thorp's full biography published a decade later. The title page contains a wonderful quotation from Neilson, reading in part, "A muddleheaded person is a… Read more about this item