The Confession of the Kibbo Kift: A Declaration and General Exposition of the World of the Kindred

2nd edition.  xii, 356pp, with monochrome plate frontispiece.  Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little faded on edges and gently pushed on corners and spine ends. Hint of foxing to text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original worn and faded dust wrapper, bumped along edges and rubbed at spine tips, with a short crack at the top of the front fold.

The Kindred of he Kibbo Kift was a youth movement founded by the charismatic English artist and writer John Hargrave in 1920, which aimed to produce a core of healthy and creative young people who would help evolve society and develop world peace without war, poverty or wasted lives.  Hargrave, known as White Fox, had been a Boy Scouts Association Commission but became disenchanted with scouting which he saw as increasingly militaristic and nationalistic, and he was expelled from the organisation by Baden-Powell.  The Confession of he Kibbo Kift was Hargrave’s first statement of the principles and philosophy of the movement he founded and was first published in 1927. This is the equally scarce second edition.  Hargrave’s original text is unchanged but this edition also includes a new foreword, a chronology of the main events in the Kindred’s history and an epilogue in which Hargrave looks at some of the developments of the movement.  It also includes a selection of cartoons from the Kibbo Kift series drawn by Hargrave in 1928 and 1920.