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Creative Camping: A Coeducational Experiment in Personality Development and Social Living, being the record of six summers of the National Experimental Camp of Pioneer Youth of America
by Lieberman, Joshua
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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VALATIE, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Association Press, 1931. First Edition. 1931 copyright; 1931 also printed on title page. AUTHOR SIGNED. Lieberman penned his name in blue ink at top of front free endpaper. VERY GOOD+ copy, clean and well-bound. No dust jacket. Faint marginal toning, pages are otherwise fresh and fine. Bound in dark green cloth hardcover with gilt spine lettering. Cover is clean, lightly edge rubbed. Binding is firm. Endpapers are toned along hinges but ends and hinges are intact and firm. Introduction by Prof. William Heard Kilpatrick A wonderful copy of an extremely scarce book. Lieberman was founder of the Pioneer Youth Camps and his Camp Robinson Crusoe located in Sturbridge, Massachusetts provided "a coeducational experiment in personality development and social living." 5 x 7-1/2"; xvii + 251 pages. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Knickerbocker Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006369
- Title
- Creative Camping: A Coeducational Experiment in Personality Development and Social Living, being the record of six summers of the National Experimental Camp of Pioneer Youth of America
- Author
- Lieberman, Joshua
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Association Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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Knickerbocker Books
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VALATIE, New York
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