Author: William Hillcourt; Lady Olave Baden-Powell
Title: Baden-Powell, the Two Lives of a Hero
Description: London, Heinemann, 1964. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated biography on Robert Baden-Powell, signed by his wife, Olave Baden-Powell. The first edition, third impression.Inscribed by one of the authors, the widow of the subject of the biography, to the half-title. "To His Excellency the Chief Scout of Victoria and Lady Delacombe, our State Guide President, with warmest appreciation and gratitude for a wonderful week of memorable events and most kind hospitality, Olave Baden-Powell, Melbourne, May 1967". In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.A biography on the founder of the Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, Robert Baden-Powell. This is a definitive biography, written from his diaries, sketch books, and letters.Illustrated with sixteen plates, and in-text line drawings. Collated, complete.By Baden-Powell's friend William Hillcourt, who was an influential leader in the Boy Scouts of America.Written with the assistance of the subject's wife, Olave Baden-Powell, who was the first Chief Guide for Britain. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the cloth. Signed to the half-title. Light edge wear to the dust wrapper, with small closed tears. Spine is age-toned. Light handling marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Baden-Powell, the Two Lives of a Hero william hillcourt olave baden-powell lady baden-powell william hillcourt Not Stated


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