Title: Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing.
Author: A. S. Neill; foreword by Erich Fromm.
Publisher: Hart Publishing Company, New York City.
Publication details: First edition softcover published 1960; Library of Congress catalog card number 60-7043; manufactured in the United States of America.
Format: Vintage softcover wraps.
Genre/Topic: Parenting and child rearing; progressive education; alternative schooling philosophy.
Language: English.
Country of origin: United States of America.
Physical description: Trade paperback volume with cream-colored printed wraps featuring bold black, blue, and magenta titling on the front cover and spine, with standard text pages printed in black on cream stock.
Contents: Neill's account of the experimental Summerhill School, describing its history, philosophy of child freedom and self-government, critiques of conventional schooling, and practical reflections on topics such as fear, love and approval, swearing and cursing, spoiling the child, and the free child; sample interior pages are shown in the photos.
Special attributes: Early American first edition of Neill's influential work on progressive child rearing, with a foreword by social psychologist Erich Fromm; pre-ISBN era volume with no ISBN, UPC, or modern barcode present.
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