Scouting Boy by Ralph Reader (9 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, small tears, tape repair and creasing. Previous owner signature to paste down.

Condition: Good. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 136 pages. Laminated pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Light cracking to gutters; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall with visible loss and creasing to panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Sprague, Ken (illustrator). In Good Used Condition. Lengthy Inscription Inside Front Cover. With Wear/Tear To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ It is some years since the identity of the unknown "Holborn Rover" was discovered to be Mr. Ralph Reader, eminent in the world of the theatre as producer, dancer and singer. Since those days the Gang Shows and the Pageant Play "Boy Scout" at the Albert Hall, as well as the many other plays he has written for Scouting, have made his name widely known wherever British Scouting exists. He has been awarded the Silver Wolf and is now a member of the Council of the Boy Scouts Association. This is his first appearance as an author. It is said that all Scouts are partly crazy. To show that it is at least true of himself, R. R. has written a crazy book. But as with all he writes, again and again he will pull the reader up with a jerk and make him think about himself and his boys and the Movement generally. Ralph lets off a lot of fireworks, but by their light we are enabled to see Scouting better.

Condition: Good. 1950. No edition remarks. 136 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout by Ken Sprague. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine. Some rubbing and marking.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Sprague, Ken (illustrator). 1st Edition. VG, Shelfwear, bumping, foxing, browning/G+, Price-clipped, edgewear, chips, tears, perforation, spine fade. 136 pages. Expanded condition report/digital photo on request.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1950 FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

First UK edition hardback in very good condition, no dustjacket, orange cloth boards, faded spine. Pencil note on front free endpaper states"from library of Fred Hurll" who was Chief Executive Commissioner of the Scout Association. (Book ref 4744).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Beautiful copy in chipped dust jacket, which retains the publsiher's 5s. net price on the front flap. Scarce title, rarily seen in dust jacket. Book has salmon colored boards. 136 pages, with internal illustrations by Ken Sprague.

, Sketches from the "Gang Shows", 68 pages (1944 3rd imp.); Great Oaks, The Story of a Scouter, A play in two acts, (1950 first edition), 95 pages, with a loose program from the first performance of Great Oaks; Oh, Scouting is a Boy (hardback first edition), 136 pages; Ralph Reader Remembers (hardback first edition 1974), [8],189 pages. First Editions and reprints , the cover of the first volume is a little bumped, all four books are neat, tidy clean examples in very good condition , the two dustwrappers are vey lightly rubbed, unclipped and in good and very good condition , printed coloured paper wraps, coloured cloth bound with gilt titles to the spines , 21.5 x 14cm Paperback and hardback ISBN: 561002428.