Sledge Horseback Outcast Siberian Lepers by Marsden Kate (121 results)

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Fourth edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), xvi, 243pp. Frontispiece, plates. Original brick-red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. The binding is intact but in shabby condition (the spine is ratherr ubbed and scuffed); the contents are in sound condition (some light tanning). There is an ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, dated 1901. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 324 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.81 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 4th Edition. FOURTH EDITION. FACSIMILE NOTE FROM BALMORAL CASTLE FIXED INTO THE FRONT FROM PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE DUKE , DATED OCT 27 1892. INCLUDING FACSIMILE LETTER FROM ROYAL PALACE IN ST PETERSBURG IN FRONT BEFORE FRONTISPIECE. 26 ILLUSTRATIONS. GILT ILLUSTRATION ON FRONT BOARD, BEVELED BOARDS, UNTRIMMED SIDES. SHELF WEAR AND MARKS ON BOARDS, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, FRONT HINGE LOOSE WITH EPS SPLIT AT GUTTER, FOXING ON EPS , NAME ON FFEP, FOXING ON TITLE PAGE, FOXING ON SIDES, OTHERWISE GOOD. 900 GRAMS.

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers New book octavo ix + 243pp., map, appendix, Originally published in 1892.

Large Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. 1st Issue of this Edition. 243 pages. A nice tight, clean, straight copy. Size: 8 1/2 X 5 1/2".

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Edition Not Stated. With line of purchase information, written along bottom spine of second page. Stain to exterior bottom pages, outside third. Edge and corner wear to boards. Text, photographs and illustrations very good. Gift Inscription.

Century Hutchinson Ltd.London.1986.Soft covers. 243 pages. Nice copy in fine condition.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 291 pp. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Cover stained and worn at edges, front hinge cracked. Contents clean and tight.

Hardback. Condition: V.g. Second Edition. undated [1892], xv [i], frontis. portrait of Queen Victoria, 243pp, [xxiv pub. cat.]. map, 24plates. Original brown cloth, gilt titles with gilt device to the front board a vignette of the author on horseback with two guides. 2 facsimile letters bound in at the front. Second edition stamped to the front board. 23 x15cms. Some wear ro the head of the spine. PLEASE EAMIL FOR PHOTOS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Hinges cracked but holding strong. Interior clean and unmarked. Gilt lettering and design on cover and spine fairly bright. Wear around edges and bumped corners. Original green cloth with bevelled edges. 24pp. advertisements, frontispiece, 25 plates, map. Facsimile letter from Queen Victoria and three page facsimile letter from Countess Tolstoy, and portrait of the Queen with tissue guard tipped in at front.

Cloth. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. Fourth ed. Some staining, rubbing, and discolouration to cloth. Gutters cracked, particularly front, lacks ffep, some foxing. Some facsimile letters have been inserted before frontis. Size: 8vo.

Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library.

Condition: Good. Fifth Editions. 243 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends, with fraying cloth and small splits. Moderate tanning to spine. Gilt lettering has become dull. Mottling to cloth.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. reprint edn; 8vo illuswraps The Century Travellers edition, with an introduction by Eric Newby. 8vo. illus paper wraps unread VG: xii, 244pp. append, map.

Hb original maroon cloth gilt illustrations to front board xvi, 243pp tipped in printed letter from Queen Victoria & President of France, Frontisplate of Queen Victoria, sketch map , plates to text and advertisements to rear etc. Light chipping and rubbing to head and foot of binding , corners bumped o/w About Vg condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. "On Sledge and Horseback to the Outcast Siberian Lepers" by Kate Marsden. 1892 1st American edition; Cassell Publishing Company; New York. This edition features a frontispiece portrait of Marsden with a map of her route (with a tissue guard), as well as numerous illustrations, photographs, maps, and facsimile documents. Decorative floral end papers. From a review: "Kate Marsden, the youngest of eight children from a poor family, was a highly committed nurse. She cared for soldiers in the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-78, and undertook missionary travels to various countries, but she was especially concerned about the plight of those suffering from leprosy. This volume describes her remarkable journey to Siberian leper colonies. At first she travelled by sledge with a friend, but continued alone on horseback, facing appalling weather conditions with her customary courage. Her commitment to leprosy sufferers led her to found the St. Francis Leprosy Guild in London in 1895, and she organized a leprosy hospital in the remote Siberian town of Vilyusk in 1897." The chapters are as follows: Clearing the Way; First Experience on the Road; Mostly Mishaps; Clanking Chains; Tarantass Traveling; Nearing the Lepers; Yakutsk - The Province and the People; First Experiences of the Two Thousand Miles on Horseback; Miseries of the Lepers; Among the Lepers; Through Fire; Finish of the Two Thousand Miles' Ride; Help for the Lepers; Results and Prospects. Condition: Tiny cloth tear at the top-right corner of the front cover. The gilt lettering at the bottom of the spine has partially faded. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Nice interior - the pages are lightly age-toned and mostly clean with only an occasional light smudge and foxing spot here and there. Page 27 has a 1" tear at the top edge. The lower-outer corner of contents page xiii has torn away. Overall the book is in Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London. The Record Press Limited, No date although later editions have a gilt vignette to the front and this does not. May or may not be a first edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Boards are a little grubby softening and wear to the spine ends. Uncut pages. Nice toght binding and clean contents. Gilt titles to spine are a little darkened. A account of the journey made by Kate Marsden to visit lepers in Siberia. With two double-page facsimile letters to the front, detailing Queen Victoria's interest in the works of Marsden. A second three page facsimile letter from Countess Tolstoy in French with English translation in the appendices. Illustrated throughout with twenty-five plates, including a full-page map. Frontispiece of Queen Victoria. 14 plates. Kate Marsden (1859 1931) was a battle-hardened nurse who had cared for the wounded during the war between Russia and Turkey in 1878. Yet even those wartime experiences had not prepared her for the gruelling equestrian journey she undertook in 1891. Having learned of the horrific conditions under which Russian lepers were forced to live, the resolute nurse sought out the imperial assistance of Englands Queen Victoria, as well as the Empress of Russia, then set off to ride thousands of miles across the wilds of Siberia. The nurse, turned equestrian explorer, was intent on bringing medical relief to Russias forgotten wounded, as well as finding a herb which was allegedly a cure for leprosy. After having completed one of the most difficult equestrian journeys of the late 19th century, Marsden returned to England where the intrepid Long Rider became one of the first women to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. An interesting selection of period advertisements related to the medical field at the rear.

Cloth binding, 21 cm, 291 pp. Ills.: black and white illustrations. Cond.: goed / good.

Mit 2 Faks.-Briefen, Front.-Portr., 1 Routen-Karte u. 24 Tafeln, OLn. mit goldgepr. Tit. u. goldgepr. Vorderdeckelill., etwas berieben, Text gering fleckig, XV, 243 S., 12 nn. Bll. (Anz.) Kate Marsden (1859-1931) wurde nach nur achtmonatiger Ausbildung als Missionsschwester im russisch-türkischen Krieg eingesetzt. Auf ihren eigenen Wunsch machte sie sich quer durch Rußland auf den Weg, um in einem entlegenen Teil Sibiriens eine Leprastation zu errichten. "Kate Marsden besaß vor allem ausgeprägten Sinn für Humor, der ihr über viele schreckliche Erlebnisse hinweghalf. Ihre Beschreibung der Fahrt durch Sibirien.ist fast unerträglich, wäre da nicht der schwarze Humor, mit dem sie ihren Bericht würzt" (Russell, FrauenReisen). K. Marsden war "Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and a member of the Royal British Nurses Association, and the Russian Imperial Red Cross Society".

Facsimile letters from Queen Victoria and Countess Tolstoy, front. port. of Victoria, illus., 24pp ads. Orig. blue cloth, bevelled boards. Marsden, 1859-1931, missionary, writer, explorer and nurse. Her efforts to find a cure for leprosy failed, and she was accused of having made up her journey, and of being a lesbian.

First American edition, 8vo, pp. [6], v-xvii, [1], 291, [1]; frontispiece, portrait of the Queen, 2-p. facsimile letter, 3-page facsimile letter, map, and 21 plates; original pictorial tan cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; a very good, sound, and clean copy.