Scouting for Boys Original 1908 Handbook 1st Edition

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Organization:Boy Scouts
Year:1908
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Extremely Rare Original Baden Powell Scouting for Boys This exceptional hard leatherbound edition as well as the first printing by Cox are (surprisingly) of exceptional rarity. We can trace only two copies that have appeared at auction in the past 20 years, both being of the first printing by Cox. The 4th most widely published book globally.Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys has sold 150 million copies since 1908, making it the fourth bestselling book of all time after The Bible, The Koran and Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book.Therefore, as the rarest copy of the largest circulation of a non-religious or forced publication book, the appraisal valuation is an extraordinary, exceedingly rarity value. This is truly a once in a hundred year opportunity.Scouting for Boys (First published ed.). London, Windsor House, Bream’s Buildings, E.C.: Horace Cox (printer for C.A. Pearson). January–March 1908. pp. six instalments. Hardback Bound First Edition.Required Insurance costs will be added. Bottom photo’s show last equivalent hardbound edition sold for $10,000 over 11 years ago. An 8% to 10% appreciation value provides over an auction value, for a hardback leather bound, historical Boy Scouting personal provenance with this richly detail owners inscription is estimated at $45,000 to $55,000. Author’s presentation copy and of exceptional rarityBADEN-POWELL, Robert Stephenson Smyth. Scouting for Boys: A handbook for instruction in good citizenship. Complete edition, revised and illustrated.London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo – over 7¾ – 9¾” tall. Near Fine. Item #002789. Buyer pays additional insurance during shipping; we can personal delivery into USA and London. 8vo (195 x 128 mm). xii, 288 pp., including frontispiece and several illustrations in text. Bound in fine contemporary dark-purple-blue morocco, boards with gilt embossed floral decoration and ruling, spine has 5 raised bands with gilt-lettering and floral decoration in compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (minor rubbing to extremities, spine somewhat sunned, mild spotting of boards). Text with minor browning mainly in blank margins, but exceptionally crisp and clean. This is the only one to be offered to the public market, Its rarity is uncontested with any and all other Scouting memorabilia; as this is the genesis of the Scouting Movement.Available and offered until March 28th, 2025. This book is the rarest book with the highest worldwide publication in the last 115 years.Do not submit any bid that doesnot reflect this value; only very serious bidders will be accepted.

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