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Altre immaginiTALES OF TIRAH AND LESSER TIBET
Lilian A. Starr (Underhill) of Peshawar (Signed & Inscribed by the author to her typist)
Editore: Hodder & Stoughton, London 1924
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Da: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Regno UnitoOrlando Booksellers
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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.
