Boy Scouts (The Gilcraft series)

Second edition, second printing.  120pp.  Red cloth-covers with black lettering and illustration.  12mo.  Covers are a little worn and faded, rubbed at corners and scuffed at ends of a sunned spine, lower leading corner curling.  A little soiling to text block edges.  Internally neat, clean and tight.  

Francis ‘Skipper’ Gidney was an early leader in the scouting movement, founding one of the first Scout Troops in 1908 when he himself was just seventeen.  Gidney/Gilcraft was the first Camp Chief at Gilwell Park, the Scout Association’s principal training and activity centre in the UK.  He established the pen name ‘Gilcraft’ when writing articles for The Scout and the Headquarters Gazette (scouting magazine) and several other instructional books for both adult and boy scouts.  The pen name continued to be used by the scouting movement after Gidney’s untimely death in 1928 (as a consequence of serious war wounds sustained in the first world war).