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Published by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1924
Seller: Lexington Books Inc, Idaho Falls, ID, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Contents are tight and clean.
Condition: Good. Hodder and Stoughton 1924 Binding: Hardcover.
Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1924 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 276 Language: English Pages: 276.
Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1923 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 276 Language: English Pages: 276.
Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1924
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have some wear. Content has light toning. Some spotting to page ends. No DJ.
Published by George H. Doran, New York, 1924
Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. New York: George H. Doran, 1924 253 pp with author's portrait frontis and eight additional B&W plates Text is clean and unmarked. Front hinge tender. Blue cloth boards with pastedown on spine have some edgewear. Lillian Starr, a missionary nurse in Peshawar, was pivotal in the rescue of an Englishwoman kidnapped by Afridi tribesmen along the Northwet Frontier border. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
Published by London, Hoddor and Stoughton, 1924 (5th printing - 6 months after the first edition)., 1924
Seller: Books and Beaches, Anna Bechteler, Icking, Germany
Book
Condition: Sehr gut. Original cloth binding, 253 pages, frontispiece, 7 plates, 1 map, edges a bit stained, binding a bit darkened (as usual), very good condition. The author worked as nurse in a missionary hospital in Peshawar, then North West Frontier Province of Tibet, and journeyed to Ladakh in 1922. In 1923 some Afghans made a raid at Kohat and the author went after them to rescue a friend abducted by them. This after her husband had been killed in another raid in India in 1917 after less than 2 years marriage. She was honorary self-supporting memeber of the Church Missionary Society Medical Mission. Quite a succesfull book at that time. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked with a tight binding. With Forewords by Lord Rawlinson & Sir John Maffey. Edited, with an Appreciation, by Basil Mathews. 253 pages. Date of publication not shown, but library stamp shows 1924 date. Black and white photographs and maps.
Published by Hodders, London, 1924
Seller: Appleford Bookroom, Abingdon, OXON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Photos & Map (illustrator). First Edition Reissue. 253 pp., illus, brown case, sm 8vo, no dj, vg but spine faded, no foxing [only eps foxed] nor marks in text, biographical introduction , a CMS-linked nurse at the Frontier Hospital in Peshawar, her studies of Tibet, her courageous rescue of a fellow female missionary from Afghan frontier Afridi brigands who had seized her and murdered her mother, and where in the wild terrain military resue was impossible. Her husband, head of the hospital ,was murdered by more brigands, and a Muslim boy was treated in the hospital and wanted to become a Christian but also murdered by his father for that. The book is about exploring Tibet scenery and life, and dealing with Muslim thugs. A very brave woman. Size: Sm 8vo.
Published by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1924
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Condition: Good. 1924. Hardcover. Original hazel cloth. Good copy in edge rubbed and slightly soiled boards. Light foxing, text remains clear. 253pp. . . . .
Published by Hodder & Stoughton London 1924, 1924
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good octavo 253pp., frontis., b/w pls., map, Account of the Lesser Tibet trek in 1922.
Published by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. 1924. Hardcover. Original hazel cloth. Good copy in edge rubbed and slightly soiled boards. Light foxing, text remains clear. 253pp. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton London 1924, 1924
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
reprint hardback in original cloth Near Fine small octavo 253pp., frontis., b/w pls., glossary, Nice bright copy in original brown cloth.
Published by George H. Doran, New York, 1924
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American edition from British sheets. Slight foxing, near fine in good only dustwrapper with large chips on the front panel.275466.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First American. 253 pp, ill. On the northwest frontier area. Authoress went into Afghanistan and continued to do missionary work in the area. She met many suffering on the frontier. The second part of the book is about her trip into Tibet. Truly an amazing woman and an amazing story. The book is very near fine save for the words "sample copy" stamped inside rear cover and again on top text edge. The dust jacket, which is also stamped "sample copy" on rear is chipped with substantial loss on rear, less so on front.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1924
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Fifth impression of the true first edition. ***SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR: "For Mrs Knight, with grateful thanks for her help in typing from Lilian A. Underhill (Starr)" in black fountain pen ink to the half-title page." ***Forewords by the author and Lord Rawlinson and an appreciation by Mr. Basil Matthews, with another foreword to part III by Sir John Maffey. ***Black and white frontispiece portrait of the author plus eight black and white plates.***Very good in beige-orange cloth-covered boards with black titles to spine and blind rules to spine and front board. Off-setting to front pastedown and front and rear free endpapers. Top edge of text-block darkened. Light foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge of text-block, not affecting interior pages. Spine tight. ***In a good only cream and black printed dustwrapper with dark sepia photographic illustration of the author in tribal dress to front panel. Large chip and associated tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper adjoining head of spine, around head of spine and to top of rear panel. Large chip to top corner of rear panel. Small chips to tail of spine and small loss to other corners of dustwrapper. Edges of dustwrapper creased and rubbed. 253 pages. 194 x 134 mm. ***Contents: Part I: Tirah and Tibet; A Study in Contrasts. Part II: Tales of Lesser Tibet. Part III: The Search for Miss Ellis Among the Afridis; Glossary. ***'On April 14, 1923, a band of Afridi brigands broke into the bungalow of Major A. J. Ellis, Border Regiment, murdered Mrs. Ellis, and carried off her 17-year-old daughter Mollie. They took the girl through a wild, mountainous country clad only in a nightdress and a coat stained with her mother's blood. Her feet were torn and bleeding as they hurried her along. ***Miss Ellis remained in the hands of the Afridis, whose women folk treated her kindly, for ten days, until she was rescued by Mrs. Starr (now Mrs. Underhill, wife of Major G.E. C. Underhill, 11st Punjabis) a nurse at the Mission Hospital at Peshawar. She was brought back in a litter to Kohat by four tribesmen. ***Mrs. Starr, who had already won the favour of the tribesmen by her kindly offices, volunteered to go to the rescue of Miss Ellis, and by her courage and tact succeeded in effecting her delivery, travelling through a wild and dangerous country.' (Quote from a contemporary newspaper cutting loosely inserted into the book along with another newspaper cutting. ***'I have no desire to write my doings. the only reason this small book is put before the public is because it has been asked for. It is merely a Tale of the Lesser Tibet trek in 1922 and the Tirah Trek in 1923. Indeed, the former was never written for publication at all, and the latter is simply a detailed repetition of events from an exact diary in which all conversations and happenings were noted at the time.' (Quote from the Author's Foreword). ***'The Afridi woman, as will be seen from the snapshot of myself in Malik-Din-Khel Afridi dress (page 161), wears a thoroughly sensible outfit for getting about in the hills, a full tunic to the knees, black and red, edged with coloured waxwork in the place of embroidery; and trousers which, though very tight up to the knee, are seven feet long, wrinkling up round the leg to give additional warmth. Over the head is a black cotton chaddar with a red or red and yellow border.' (Quote from page 35). ***An early impression of the first edition, very scarce to find signed and inscribed by the author, which is also an association copy given to Mrs. Knight thanking her for helping to type the book. An early twentieth century travel book of interest to collectors of travel books on Lesser Tibet and Tirah. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Signed and Inscribed by Author.
Published by London Hodder and Stoughton, 1924
Seller: Books of Asia Ltd, trading as John Randall (BoA), Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Book Signed
Fourth impression, pp.253, portrait, 6 illustrations, 2 maps. A very good copy in original cloth. Spine and corners lightly bumped. The copy of Colonel C.E. Bruce, with a warm presentation inscription from the author dated 1924 thanking him for his assistance in freeing the hostage, and with numerous annotations by Bruce correcting facts or refuting exaggerations. Armorial bookplate of Colonel Bruce to pastedown. A fascinating account of the two expeditions made by Lilian Agnes Starr (1885-1977), a nurse of the Peshawar Mission Hospital, into Tibet and Afghanistan. The first, in 1922, was a vacation with her single servant to Leh, capital of Ladakh, reveals an immensely rich culture brought to life by Starr's frank and vivid descriptions. The second expedition, in 1923, was a far more dramatic affair which earned Starr no small amount of fame in England and elsewhere. In 1923 the British cantonment Kohat, near the Afghanistan border, was raided by Afridi tribesmen and British citizen Mollie Ellis was captured. It was Lilian Starr who was chosen to find Mollie Ellis and negotiate her return, and upon her successful return was lauded world-wide. The writing, directly from Starr's personal journal and diaries, is frank and lends a realism often lost in other travel accounts. This work was so popular it went through three further editions in four months from its initial publication in November 1923. Colonel C.E. Bruce (1876-1950) was a British Indian Army Officer and colonial administrator involved in, among others, the Boxer Rebellion and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. He was particularly active in Balochistan, transferring to the Political Department sometime in the 1920s, and became the Chief Commissioner of Balochistan in 1930. He was District Commissioner in Kohat during the raid in 1923 and was subsequently able to meet and help to Starr on her mission. Yakushi S698.