THE HANDBOOK FOR GIRL GUIDES! GIRL SCOUTS, FIRST EDITION! Boy The Handbook For Girl Guides, Or How Girls Can Help Build The Empire.By Agnes Baden-Powell. Printed in 1912. FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING.
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons., London, Edinburgh, and New York, 1912
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GIRL SCOUTS FIRST EDITION. THE HANDBOOK FOR GIRL GUIDES! The Handbook For Girl Guides, Or How Girls Can Help Build The Empire.By Agnes Baden-Powell. Printed in 1912. First Edition. FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING. There is no date on the title page, which is standard for the First Edition. This book was printed in 1912. This First Edition is identified as this hardback and with no date on the title page. The Second Edition was not printed until 1917 in paperback/pamphlet form. The Second Edition of the book in hardcover was in 1918 and is dated. There are no other first edition Girl Scout books that supersede this book. This book superseded Pamphlet A: Baden-Powell Girl Guides, a Suggestion for Character Training for Girls and Pamphlet B: Baden-Powell Girl Guides, a Suggestion for Character Training for Girls by the same authors (1917). In turn it was itself replaced by Girl Guiding in 1918. This book is the true first edition of Girl Scouts. There is no earlier book. There is no date on the title page, which is standard for the First Edition. This book is extremely difficult to find in this condition. An exceedingly rare and highly desirable book. The Handbook For Girl Guides Or How Girls Can Help Build The EmpireBy Agnes Baden-Powell. Thomas Nelson and Sons. FIRST EDITION of this landmark book. No date is printed on the title page [it was printed in 1912]. Good condition. Difficult to find without extensive wear. With generalized wear. Generalized looseness from use. Generalized abrasion. Generalized looseness. Stain on rear cover. Still good to very good. Extremely difficult to find unused. Early name in pencil. Ownership location on the end paper has been left blank. The blank memorandum pages in the rear are blank and not filled in. Excellent condition for this rare scouting book oft used in the field. A rare book and particularly hard to obtain. This book is extremely difficult to find in good condition. There is no date on the title page, which is standard for the First Edition. ____________ How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire Author Agnes Baden-Powell Robert Baden-Powell PublisherThomas Nelson and SonsPublication dateMay 1912 The Handbook for Girl Guides or How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire is the full title of the book more commonly known as How Girls Can Help to Build up the Empire. It was the first handbook for Girl Guides. The author was Agnes Baden-Powell in conjunction with (then) Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell. It was published in May 1912 by Thomas Nelson and Sons. The book was a reworking of the famous Scouting for Boys. It was adapted for use by girls, although large sections remained unaltered and it included sections on stalking, tracking, signalling and camping. Several chapters on childcare, nursing and housewifery had been inserted and stories of heroic women and girls were sometimes substituted for the male ones. The book also contained the enrolment ceremony and details of the second- and first-class tests. This book superseded Pamphlet A: Baden-Powell Girl Guides, a Suggestion for Character Training for Girls and Pamphlet B: Baden-Powell Girl Guides, a Suggestion for Character Training for Girls by the same authors. In turn it was itself replaced by Girl Guiding in 1918. Throughout the early years of Guiding, movements in different countries started publishing their own handbooks as well.…
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- Title
- THE HANDBOOK FOR GIRL GUIDES! GIRL SCOUTS, FIRST EDITION! Boy The Handbook For Girl Guides, Or How Girls Can Help Build The Empire.By Agnes Baden-Powell. Printed in 1912. FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING.
- Author
- Agnes Baden-Powell; Sir Robert Baden-Powell
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons., London, Edinburgh, and New York
- Publication year
- 1912
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Binding
- The binding is original.
- Edition
- First Edition.
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