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Dustjacket: Bob Hunt Senior Camper
George W. Orton, author
Whitman Publishing Co., 1924

Bob Hunt Senior Camper is a book from the Bob Hunt Series of books by George W. Orton.
Also included in this series are Bob Hunt at Camp Pontiac, Bob Hunt Senior Camper, Bob Hunt in Canada. 

This blog post article by Mary Katherine May of QualityMusicandBooks.com.

The Bob Hunt Series books were written in the first decade of the 20th century with reprint editions following.

Bob Hunt Senior Camper copyright in the Whitman edition I have is shown as 1915, entered by George W. Jacobs and Co., with the title page indicating that Bob Hunt at Camp Pontiac already having been published.

The edition showing here is from Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin, printed in 1924 by Western Printing and Lithographing Company.


Real Boys
The Journal of Education, December 9, 1915 issue, Vol. 82, No. 21. A.E. Winship, Editor

This book shows the ability of Dr. Orton to get the boys' point of view. He has put into the book is wide knowledge of athletics in all branches and many interesting details of camp life. Bob Hunt and his associates are real boys with whom other boys will soon become well acquainted.

Journal of Education, December 9, 1915 issue

The American Review of Reviews
Volume 54, July-December 1916

Manly Boys

The American Review of Reviews, Volume 54, July-December 1916, on George W. Jacobs and Company ad page the book Bob Hunt in Canada is described as dandy and for manly boys.
Source for the following information: Wikipedia Full Article

George Washington Orton (1873-1958) was a remarkable man, having determination and perseverance along with a great mind.  He was paralyzed from a fall at the age of three and regained mobility at twelve. In his college studies he earned a doctorate in 1896.

In Paris at the 1900 Summer Olympics, Orton won for Canada its first gold medal in the 2500m Steeplechase.  He played on the 1896 all-star soccer team for the University of Toronto.  

In 1910 he played center half for the Philadelphia all-stars against the New York all-stars In Haverford, Pennsylvania, and in 1923, at the age of 50 was playing soccer for Merchantville in the Philadelphia league. He was a member of the Merion and Belmont Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia, the New York Athletic Club, the Pennsylvania Athletic Club, the University of Pennsylvania Track Club and a former secretary of the Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club of Media, Pa. Dr. Orton was also a member of the American Academy of Poets.

Later, Orton was a track coach at Penn, and wrote a book about the track and field history of that university. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame. Orton died at age 85 in Meredith, New Hampshire.

Book Cover: Bob Hunt Senior Camper
Geo. W. Orton, author
1924 Whitman Publishing edition

Dustjacket Back Side: Bob Hunt Senior Camper
Books for Boys, early 20th century

Charity Stamp from Salvatorian Seminary
St. Nazianz, Wisconsin, ca. 1929

Another interesting point to note in regard to the copy I describe here are the two Christmas Seal stamps which at one time I can assume were used to attach the dustjacket endflaps to the front and back pastedown pages in the book. 

One is intact, the other has a small piece separated that still adheres to the back pastedown.

Merry Christmas, for the benefit of the Salvatorian Seminary, St. Nazianz, Wisc.

This stamp dates to ca. 1929.  St. Nazianz, Wisconsin. St. Nazianz, WI, was named for Gregory of Nazianzus, also known as Gregory the Theologian, who was Archbishop of Constantinople in the Fourth Century.