Scout Master (75 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good -. No Jacket. Early reprint. Number 9 of ten titles in series; copyright page lists to Number 10. Red pictorial cloth. Moderate cover wear, including diagonal crease in rear cover cloth; light-to-moderate cover stains. Prior owner name/address inside front cover. Pages somewhat browned with age; single small insect bore in page fore edges; occasional very light smudges to interior. Binding intact.…

Condition: New.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. #06 of the 22 volumes in Ralphson's Boy Scout series. Binding is navy-blue with black lettering and a triangle-shaped symbol. Heavy wear throughout, and binding is loose. Crayon drawings on the front matter, and occasionally on the reading pages. If this book was a horse, I'd shoot it. But all reading pages are intact, so it's a good copy for someone who just wants to read it. 230 pgs. + ads.…

Hardcover. No Jacket. None Listed. 254 pp + 4 p ads, b/w frontis, the book and contents are clean and tight, the covers are tight with soil on the rear and some scuffing and edge wear.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. This book is severely edgeworn. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. The binding has separated on one side of the leaves. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

hardcover. Condition: Good +. later printing. Octavo, dark yellow cloth covers stamped in black and white. 254 pages plus ads. Frontis. illustrations. Former owner name on front blank, embossing stamp on front endpaper. Spine a bit rubbed. 040414C.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardcover in VG- condition (spotting on top page edges, pages yellowing). Fair dust jacket (large chip missing from top of DJ spine). 185 pages. [12oz]. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No date given, but probably about 1913. The 15th book of the 20 volumes in Ralphson's Boy Scout series. Blue binding with black letters has medium wear at the edges and at the head and tail of the spine. Spine worn and sunfaded. Some soiling on the front endpapers. Interior yellowing with ages, and binding slightly loosening, but still pretty nice. 253 pgs.…

Condition: GOOD. Early printing. Lists to #15 at front of book. 160 pp. Good only in illustrated beige boards - severe toning to the pages.

Condition: GOOD. Later printing. Glossy frontispiece. Lists to #15 in this series at back of book. Ralphson was one of the first scout masters in the rather short-lived American Boy Scouts (not to be confused with the Boy Scouts of America) founded by Randolph Hearst and differing from the BSA in its emphasis on preparing the young boys for military service. Remington Arms even created an official American Boy Scouts rifle. 255 pp. plus 3 pp advertisements. Orange and white illustrated endpapers. Good only in mustard-colored illustrated boards (both hinges cracked, cover bright and attractive.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Faults: No dust jacket, spine and back board have lost some color, some shelf wear, bumping to spine, loose hinge repaired with acid free document paper on frontispiece. Otherwise, square spine, strong binding, clean pages which are slightly toned due to age.…

Condition: GOOD. Reprint. Includes a 32 page addendum on "Boy Scout Nature Lore - Insects of the United States" with an index. 179 pp. plus 7 pp publisher's ads. Good overall in khaki cloth with brown lettering (usual rather severe toning to the pages, but otherwise sturdy and clean).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. This is the 3rd book of the 22 volumes in Ralphson's Boy Scout series. Binding is brown with a drawing of a Scout and his dog cooking over a campfire. Binding has fraying at the head and tail of the spine, and light wear at the edges. Some sunfading on the spine. Binding in the very early stages of thinking about separating, but intact now. Ink inscription on one of the blank front pages, otherwise very clean and tight pages. 254 pgs. + ads.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 160 pages; 16 chapters. One of the 10 books in series of Sterling Boy Scout books. Chapter titles include: Out on the trestle; the rescue; A visit of inspection; The beach patrols; Home again and away; the silver king; Captain Bowling's story; the friendly Seminoles, etc. Pages foxed; no markings on pages. Previous owner name penciled and stamped in front inside cover. inner spine crease weakened but pages tight. Grayish green hard cover with black lettering and two scouts on ledge of wooded area; one holding flag; the other sitting and writing on paper. Back cover has smudges; Cover and spine edges and corners have some fraying. An excellent vintage book for the juvenile reader--expeciallly a boy scout.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Undated, circa early to mid-20th century work of fiction. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Scarce. Boards soils worn and water damaged, some foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. b-218 Gift inscription and date on reverse of frontispiece. Pages yellowed. Pictorial boards slightly soiled with edge wear at corners and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Binding loose, with webbing showing at front hinge. Pages unmarked and only slightly aged. Cover is distressed -- with soiling, small tears at bottom of spine cover and scuffing to pastedown illustration.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The Tenderfoot Squad or Camping at Raccoon Lodge was written by Captain Alan Douglas - Scout Master and is a vintage Boy Scout fiction book. The book was published by M. A. Donohue & Company in 1919 and could be a First Edition though it's not specifically stated as such. It's not an ex-library copy - has no dust jacket and is only in good condition - the pages are yellowing and the spine is brittle. The book is 4 3/4" by 7 1/2" and has 185 pages with a Table of Contents and about a dozen advertising pages at the end of the book. It's a really nice example of how things used to be - both good and bad. Thank you!.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Although the cover shows this book as "Boy Scouts on the Columbia River or Adventures in a Motor Boat," the title page shows it as "Boy Scouts in a Motor Boat or Adventures on the Columbia River." The publishers probably couldn't decide which and when they flipped a coin, it landed on the edge! The olive-green exterior is in nice shape, with some light edgewear on the corners and head/tail of the spine. The interior has an inscription on the endpapers, and the hinge is coming loose between the frontpiece and the title page and on the rear endpapers. Otherwise a pretty nice copy.246 pgs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. tan pictorial c w/white & black titles; illustratef end papers 250 clean, unmarked pages+ ads. Frontis (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Chicago: M. A. Donohue, 1913. Very Good/no dust jacket. Brown cloth boards decorated with red, black and white illustration, black and white lettering on cover and spine. Tiny spot of wear to cloth at base of spine. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean decorated endpapers; previous owner name and date on back of front free endpaper. Black and white frontis illustration. 251 pages + seven pages of publisher's advertising at rear of book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. This book is in Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners. The spine and spine joints have fading to the color, and there are small spots of fading / discoloration to the cover edges as well. The text pages are generally clean, but there is noticeable generalized toning to the pages. "George Harvey Ralphson was a collective pen name used by multiple ghost writers of juvenile adventure books working for M. A. Donohue & Company in the early 20th century. According to the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times, several of the books credited to Ralphson may have been written by J. Frank Honeywell. The best-known works credited to Ralphson were the "Boy Scout" series of adventures. Several sources have erroneously reported that he was a real person" (from Wikipedia).…

Hardcover. Condition: G+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1914, Hurst & Co., HB (no dj, illustrated boards) 160pp, G+ (gift inscription dated 1916, spine darkened, interior clean and unmarked, binding tight, covers lightly soiled).