Billy Boy Scout 1916 lot of 2 copies illustrated children's book camping fishing Ancient & The Known World including railroads

including railroads

July - December 1911

Quite remarkable and fascinating for what is certainly among the very earliest depictions of a hippopotamus to appear in Western culture

all with extensive advertising

Billy Boy Scout 1916 lot of 2 copies illustrated children's book camping fishing Ancient & The Known World including railroads(Old Books, Early 20th Century Books, Boy Scouts of America, Americana, Children's Books, Illustrated Books). Billy Boy Scout, by Gilly Bear. Published 1916, New York by Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company. 32 pages. Text in English. Illustrated with full page color plates. Lot of two (defective?) copies of this early 20th century Boy Scouts book for children. Publisher's cloth bindings, illustrated cover paste downs. Bindings well age worn, rubbed and