Lee Mrs Harrison (38 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. no dj. By Mrs. R. Lee, formerly Mrs. T. E. Bowdich, author of The African Wanderers, Adventures in Australia, Memoirs of Cuvier, with illustrations by Harrison Weir. Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1876. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece. Red cloth boards stamped in black with a central monogram and decorative borders; gilt and black spine. Harrison Weir (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New Revised Edition; Inscription on front free end paper: "To my very dear friend Elmer Carter , the publisher. R. L. Bowen". No other marks.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. No date but appears to be late nineteenth century. Red cloth with black lettering and front cover landscape pictorial. A whisper of soiling on back cover. 10 pages of publisher ads in back. A very clean and tight copy with no marks or inscriptions. Harrison Weir (illustrator). …

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. Weir, Harrison (illustrator).

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

pictorial hard cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 19 cm. 188 pages G. Good condition with shelf wear, rubbing and edge wear to original red cloth covers, pages browned, several short page tears.

Condition: New. Weir, Harrison (illustrator).

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Pages are stained, corners & spine are torn, cover is worn. The book is complete and still in one peice. 392 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The date was not stated but the gift inscription is dated 1899; otherwise unmarked. Illustrated. The page edges are age toned. Foxing on the free end pages. The blue cloth boards have a couple rubbed spots. Still a solid GOOD++. Harrison Weir (illustrator).

Condition: New. In English.

Boards. 8vo, decorated cloth boards, b&w frontis plate, pp 188, ii. Boards worn, pages toned, contents page loose, fair condn. Betsy (Bessie) Lee (1860-1950), temperance evangelist.

188+[2]pp. 8vo. Original red decorated cloth, heavily flecked in parts. Previous owner's name on ffe, free distribution fund slip attached. Offsetting to endpapers, but a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Very Good +. Fifth Edition, Circa 1891. Frontis-piece [lacks tissue guard], viii, 312pp, 30pp, with an additional 4 plates, bound in original green, illustrated cloth, with the gilt still bright. This book was stored with a brown paper cover over it, which allows the book covers to be in Very Good+ Condition, but the paper covers were pasted onto the inside portion of the book covers, leaving a residue and portions of the paper. Church library bookplate inside cover [only library marking], hinges cracked, lacks back free endpaper, interior foxing. Weir, Harrison (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY COWIE on the front free endpaper as follows: "'In His love' | Bessie Lee Cowie | Worlds W.C.T.U." New Edition Revised. 8vo. (20 cm.) 220p. Frontispiece black and white captioned photo of Mrs. Harrison Lee plus three other full-page black and white captioned photos, including two of her in various parts of the world. Green cloth with black letters on the front cover and the spine and with black vertical ruling on the front cover. Just hints of wear to extremities, cloth clean and bright, all photos in fine condition, previous owner's note in pencil on front free endpaper (Bought April 21, 1943 Pasadena, Calif.), else near fine to fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Date determined in part from the inscriptions. Born in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia in 1860, Betsy (Bessie) Lee was a temperance evangelist who traveled the world in the interests of the W.C.T.U. Her mother died of consumption in 1868 and her father was unable to keep his five children together. Bessie was sent to Melbourne relations who mistreated her during their bouts of drunkenness, experiences which must have informed her later decision to join the temperance movement. Possessed of a strong social consciousness, she toured slums, refuges and gaols with Dr. John Singleton. She went to hear the evangelist, Mrs. Hampson, about 1883 and soon afterwards launched on her own career of public speaking. In 1884 the American temperance lecturers, Booth and Glover of the Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperance Army, won her into the active prohibition camp. She helped to pioneer the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Victoria in 1887 and traveled widely in Australia in support of temperance. She sponsored the powerful Victorian Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic in 1890-96 and fought district local option battles over whether numbers of hotels should be reduced, maintained or increased. Besides incessant traveling, speech-making and pledge-taking, she wrote copiously for daily newspapers and the temperance press. She acknowledged heavenly direction as a speaker and was admired for her fluency and sincerity; she reacted well under pressure and attracted a following, mainly of women, who slaved for her. With no income of her own, she was dependent on the generosity of temperance supporters. 1896 saw the first of her countless trips abroad, principally to Britain, New Zealand and the United States of America. She spent some years in Hawaii before settling at Pasadena, California. In 1947 her last campaign brought her national headlines in America. She died at Pasadena on 18 April 1950. Her written works include Marriage and Heredity (Melbourne, 1893), One of Australia's Daughters: an Autobiography (London, 1906) and One of God's Lamplighters: Incidents in my Life Work (London, 1909). [Australian Dictionary of Biography]. Signed by Author(s).…

Brown Cl. Condition: Good. No Jacket. now in protective milar cover Inscribed:" With love to Mottey Minn W C L U From Bessie Lee Cowie Worlds Missionary W C L U New Zealand 1929. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This extraordinary memoir recounts the uniquely Australian childhood of a remarkable woman, whose life began in the harsh mining community of Daylesford in 1860. At age eight, the writer lost her mother and was sent to live with her uncle and aunt in the remote hamlet of Railway Creek. Despite the isolation, she managed to build a rich world of imagination. She taught herself to read and write, and became passionate about the natural world. This book illuminates the rich tapestry of life in an early Australian gold rush town in a way that few others have captured. It is a moving tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity and reveals the profound influence the natural world and the people of her community had on one woman's life. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

323 pp, b&w illustrated plates, black, white, green and gold blocked illustration on upper board and spine, lacks front end-paper, else very good copy in illustrated, red, cloth boards. Fifth edition.

A book of Texts, Chapters and Messages for each day of the Year. Christian World Sydney nd c 1908. Blue cloth, portrait frontis, 197pp. Very good. Australian Tax on Low Value Imported Goods (LVIG) exempt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New Edition Revised. Small octavo. 220pp. Original burgundy cloth binding stamped in black. Previous owner's ink address on the front flyleaf, modest staining at the top corner of the contents and the front board; clipping laid in with offsetting at the rear, else near very good. Inscribed by the author: "In His Love. Bessie Lee Cowie. Worlds W.C.T.U." Born in Australia, Cowie (1860-1950) was a New Zealand temperance campaigner, social reformer, lecturer, and writer. At the end of the book, Cowie solicits additional sales of the book for a dollar per copy, and provides a Honolulu address. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1890. 1890 edition, originally published 1853. Mustard colored pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black, frontis engraving by Harrison Weir, additional engravings by the artist, 392 pages plus publisher's ads. Very good with light shelf rubbing and a touch of shelf soil, good hinges (rear hinge internally neatly reglued and secure), text block sound, pages clean, no names or other markings. Includes many mammals, both wild and domesticated. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

pp. 192. Portrait frontispiece. Slightly torn dust wrapper, a little foxing at the front else a very good copy. *MRS. COWIE was a leading figure in the temperance movement in Australia and New Zealand, and also a vigorous speaker for women's suffrage. This edition has a Supplement on her later life in New Zealand not present in the earlier editions.…

(1943) New edition, revised. Or.lettered cl. 220pp. Frontispiece portrait. Sl.mark to front board else a very good copy. 1st ed. Inscribed "Bessie Lee Currie. World's W.C.T.U. 1943" on the ffe. The author was also active in the Temperance Movement in Australia & New Zealand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.