First edition, first impression. 252pp with monochrome plate frontispiece and occasional black and white illustrations in text. Orange cloth-covered boards with black lettering on spine. 8vo. An ex library copy with a library service bookplate on the front paste down and a library service tipped in label on the front free endpaper, minor library stamp on the copyright page. Text block edges and endpapers a little browned and marked, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original paper dust wrapper, worn, creased, chapped at edges, sunned over spine. The dust wrapper is protected in an adhered clear film sleeve (preventing close inspection of cloth covers).
Leslie Paul (1905-1985) was an Anglo-Irish journalist and writer and co-founder of the Woodcraft Folk, a UK based educational movement for children and young people based on co=operation, peace and international friendship. His 'The Folk Trail' sets out the founding principles and philosophy of the movement and in effect amounts to a Woodcraft Folk Leaders manual. An important and influential work for the Woodcraft Folk movement and now very hard to find in its original edition.
