Baden-Powell, R(obert).S.S. Sketches in Mafeking and East Africa
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1907. First edition. Oblong 4to. xii 183, (1) pp. Presentation copy, inscribed by Baden-Powell on front free endpaper. With a printed invitation to a party at the author's house in Pax Hill, Bentley, from the author to Major and Mrs. Wade mounted on front paste-down, and with a publisher's postcard advertising this book tipped in at front free endpaper. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth-covered beveled edge boards, stamped in brown and in black, two small stains on front board, bottom front corner bumped; all edges trimmed; foxing to endpapers; two repaired short closed tears in bottom gutter edge of p. 93 and plate opposite p. 112; scattered minor soiling; old newspaper clipping regarding Baden-Powell laid in.
A handsome first edition presentation copy of Major General Robert Baden-Powell's memoir of his travels across Africa and exploits during the Second Boer War.
