Book is clean and atrractive with no bumps to nboards and no names or writing. Paper of jacket is crispo, but paper ahas also darkened at spine and all edges. There is is also wear to upper corners and crown of spine, but has not been price-clipped and is protected by brand new mylar. A memoir of an Amherst graduate whose ties with the college transcend academics, as his grandfather, William Stearns was the college's fourth president. Witten in the first person and both anecdotal and informational. 212 pages.