[Rarebooks] FS - Baden-Powell and Mafeking

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

*BAILLIE, Major F. D*., /*MAFEKING A Diary of the Siege*/, Archibald 
Constable & Company, London, 1900, 1st edition, 8vo, pp. 299. Bound in 
original red cloth with facsimile of one pound Mafeking "siege note" 
laid on to front board. Tipped-in to the inside rear board is a very 
fragile "Special Siege Issue" of the December, 1899, /The Mafeking Mail/ 
newspaper, apparently in facsimile, as only one side is printed. 
Unfolded, the broadside measures 38 x 32 cm.

Inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper: "To F. W. Hurford / From 
Major Baden Powell - 10th Royal Hussars". This Baden-Powell was the 
brother of the more famous Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, the 
"Hero of Mafeking", and the founder of the international Boy Scouts 
movement. Major Baden-Powell, although not part of the defending forces 
at Mafeking, was a member of the relief forces which reached the town in 
May, 1900. Major Baillie was the correspondent for /The Morning Post/ 
and /The Daily Graphic/. Virtually from the outbreak of the war in 1899, 
Baillie kept a diary, which he turned into this book after hostilities 
concluded

Former owner's bookplate to inside front board, and other former owner's 
small rubber stamp to bottom of front and rear free endpapers. With 17 
full page black-and-white illustrations (three on coated paper with 
tissue guard), all taken from /The Daily Graphic, /and all in very good 
condition/. /The boards of our copy show some shelf wear, and light 
soiling. The binding is cracked between pages 144/145, although the 
hinges and joints are tight. Contents clean and tight - no pages are 
loose. Overall, in good condition externally; and good plus condition 
internally.

Price: $350

Terms of sale - the price is in USD. Payment by check or credit card. 
Postage and packing charge will be $8.50 in North America; $15.50 
overseas. Returnable within seven days of receipt if not as described.

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