First edition of this collection of stories themed around the values of the Girl Guides/Girl Scouts, in the rare original dust jacket.
Very good plus in very good dust jacket.
Price: $1,000.00
"'I dunno much about Girl Guides,' he said, 'but if they teach girls to face up as pluckily as you're doing in a nasty hole, I touch my cap to 'em.'"
From stories of shipwreck survival to silly rhymes about an underwater dinner party, THE SECOND TRAIL annual was full of entertainment for 1920s Girl Guides (known stateside as Girl Scouts). Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, penned and illustrated one of the 16 stories in this collection, inspired by his time in Africa as an officer in the British Army (with its attendant colonial stereotyping). This copy of THE SECOND TRAIL, already difficult to find in the original dust jacket, is especially well preserved and lovely.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, [1928]. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original blue pictorial cloth binding. Original unpriced color pictorial dust jacket. Color portrait of the Duchess of York tipped onto grey paper facing Foreword; illustrated in black and white throughout. 282 pages. Jacket with some foxing to spine and extremities, light edgewear; offsetting from binding to verso. Binding with a bit of bumping to corners and spine ends, fore-edge with light foxing. Clean and bright.
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