The Confession of the Kibbo Kift. A Declaration and General Exposition of the Work of the Kindred.

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First edition, written by "Head Man" of the Kindred, John "White Fox" Hargrave (1894 1982). Bearing the "Imprint of the Kincouncil", this was the first book issued by the Kibbo Kift. It is now uncommon, especially in the original dust jacket. Hargrave's organization, the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, imbued Baden-Powell's scouting movement with pacifist and world-healing ambitions, moving away from what Hargrave saw as increasingly militaristic tendencies in the Boy Scouts Association. Focusing on the natural world, it drew mystical beliefs from Frazer's and the writings of Aleister Crowley. Their members included several suffragettes, including Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, as well as photographer Angus McBean, folk-dance revivalist Rolf Gardiner (who interested his friend D. H. Lawrence in the movement), and Roland Berrill, who later founded Mensa. A more remotely involved "Advisory Committee" included H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley, Rabindranath Tagore, Maurice Maeterlink, and Havelock Ellis. Many of the beliefs of the Kibbo Kift still exist in the form of the Woodcraft Folk and it inspired a 1970s rock musical, two major exhibitions at London museums, and several recent books. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine ends and fore edge of front board gently bumped, binding otherwise sharp, faint foxing to edges and endpapers, else internally crisp; jacket unclipped, wear with light loss to corners, a little foxed, unfaded: a near-fine copy in the very good jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 145721

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