Baden-Powell's Original Scout Handbook, Scouting for Boys, Hardcover Edition

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Here is the ultimate Scouting collectible, a reprint copy of Baden-Powell's "Scouting for Boys" in a hardcover edition. The title page says, "A Handbook for Instruction and Good Citizenship --- Robert Baden-Powell (first Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell), Founder of the Scouting Movement and Chief Scout of the World". The book is in virtually mint condition except for numerous Wood Badge totems having been autographed on the frontise page and the title page. Published by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., the publishers of the original edition, the book is hardbound in an attractive green and has Baden-Powell's autograph stamped on the cover in gold.