Baden-Powell (R.S.S.) Sketches in Mafeking and East Africa
£225
London, Smith, Elder, 1907.
First edition. Landscape folio. Original brown pictorial cloth.
British author, illustrator and war hero Robert Baden-Powell recounts his adventures across South and East Africa in this profusely illustrated memoir. He devotes a chapter to his most famous exploit, the siege of Mafeking, in which he successfully held off the South African Republic’s Burghers during the Second Boer War. Baden-Powell went on to found the Boy Scout movement.
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Gift inscription to head of title-page, ownership inscription to front pastedown, some marking; cloth rubbed and speckled.
Half-title, frontispiece with tissue-guard, plates, illustrations in text.
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