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1940120211AB1940. London Macmillan and Co. Limited 1940. 15.5 cm x 20 cm. 151 pages. Hardcover publisher's original cream cloth with lettering and pictorials on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Board corners bumped. Foxing to interior but otherwise bright and clean. Binding is strong and firm and square. Includes for example the following: A Land for Animal-Lovers / Wolf-Children and a Baboon Boy / Locusts / Buffalo Hunting / Bouncing Birds / White Man's Magic/ Charged by a Rhino / Elephant Yarns / Making Men in Kenya etc. Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell 1st Baron Baden-Powell 1857 1941 was a British Army officer writer founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Boy Scout Movement and founder with his sister Agnes of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement. Baden-Powell authored the first editions of the seminal work Scouting for Boys which was an inspiration for the Scout Movement. Educated at Charterhouse in Surrey Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899 during the Second Boer War in South Africa Baden-Powell successfully defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking. For this he was a national hero. Wikipedia hardcover
1939190209-MYB60London: Macmillian and Company Ltd. 1939. Beige Hardcover some wear to cover 1939 first edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover. Macmillian and Company, Ltd. Hardcover
19353735London: Herbert Jenkins. Good. 1935. First Edition. Cloth. vi 192pp; b/w illust by the author original green cloth a little soiled corners bumped spine faded and soiled endpaper maps prize plate to half title pg light foxing to edges internally very good.; 190 x 125mm . Herbert Jenkins hardcover
0260308986.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2556323 May 1906. On embossed War Office letterhead. ‘Scouting for Boys’ did not begin its serialized publication until January 1908 but Baden-Powell’s entry in the Oxford DNB states that it was Haldane as Secretary for War who ‘persuaded him that character training should be at the centre of any scheme of boy instruction’ following a ‘major inspection’ of the Boys’ Brigade by him as Vice-President at Glasgow in April 1904. 1p 4to. In fair condition lightly aged with slight creasing and a short closed tear to one edge. Reads: ‘Dictated. / 23rd. May 1906. / Dear General Baden-Powell / Thank you for your letter. I have seen Sir Edwad Ward about your scheme and he is to have a meeting with you. / Believe me / Yours sincerely / cyclostyled signature R. B. Haldane’. At the time of the letter Sir Edward Ward 1853-1928 was Permanent Under-Secretary at the War Office. 23 May 1906. On embossed War Office letterhead. unknown
19557980New Bedford Mass: Girl Scout Leader's Club 1955. Wire spiral-bound octavo-sized book 21 x 14 cm. 112 1 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook offered by the Girl Scout Leader's Club of New Bedford Mass. on Buzzard's Bay southwest of the Cape. Many of the recipes are attributed and reproductions of the handwritten originals. Original illustrations by Phyllis Allen and Evelyn Shainberg. Wire bound in original black card-stock boards handsomely titled and decorated in silver. Tiny dog ears to a leaf or two; a bit of pulling to the stiff boards. Near fine. Scarce. OCLC locates two copies Harvard Amherst. Girl Scout Leader's Club hardcover
