RARE SECOND EDITION of the extremely popular scouting guide by the renowned British Army officer and writer Lieutenant General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell. An eminent inspirator for the Scout Movement, founder and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association and founder of the Girl Guides, Baden-Powell found on his return from Africa in 1903 that his military training manual `Aids to Scouting` had become a best-seller, and was being used by teachers and youth organisations, and decided to re-write it to suit a youth readership, which resulted in `Scouting for Boys`, published in six instalments in 1908, and sold approximately 150 million copies as the fourth best-selling book of the 20th century. Contains a fold-out diagram pasted on rear endpaper. 120x90mm. XII+178 pages. Softcover. Cover stained and worn. Cover corners and edges worn. Spine slightly stained and wrinkled. Spine edges slightly worn. Binding slightly visible between pages 4-5 and 100-101. Most pages dog-eared. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare original edition of the legendary scouting guide is in good condition for its age.