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
Lieberman, Joshua
Publisher: Association PressDate published: 1931
New York: Association Press, 1931. Hard Cover. Good binding. Octavo. xvii, [1], 251 pp., plates. First edition. In publisher's cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Spine darkened; board edges and spine ends worn with fraying to the cloth; contemporary owner name above a much later gift inscription from the same owner, otherwise clean. Founded in 1924 by a collection of labor unions, the Pioneer Youth of America was an outgrowth of the labor movement. It's aim was, like so many other youth organizations, to prepare children to tackle the problems of the world. A notable reform movement.
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
Joshua Lieberman
Publisher: Association PressDate published: 1931Format: Hardcover
First Edition. Ex University of California, Berkeley library book with usual library markings. Binding is tight, text clean. Hardcover edge wear. No other marks in lightly read book. Mild edge wear of hardcover. Author was director of Pioneer Youth of America and its National Experimental Camp (1924-1929). The camp taught workers' children social progressivism.
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