LIFE AND TIMES OF MRS. LUCY G. THURSTON, WIFE OF REV. ASA THURSTON, PIONEER MISSIONARY TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, GATHERED FROM LETTERS AND JOURNALS EXTENDING OVER A PERIOD OF MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS... by Thurston, Lucy G - 1882

S.C. Andrews, 1882. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. ORIGINAL 1882 PRINTING. Ex-Library with usual markings. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing. Front hinge cracked and binding loosening slightly but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Honolulu: The Friend, 1934. Facsimile Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/good. Facsimile Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Facsimile of 1882 edition. 307pp. Plus index. Bump to edge of rear board and one corner mildly bumped. Endpapers browned with some light foxing to first and last pages. Ownership address sticker on front paste-down. Dustjacket has chips and small edge tears and is missing two approx. 1" square pieces, front and bottom of spine. Still a nice hardcover copy in dustjacket. 8vo.

[Advertiser Publishing Company],, [1921.]. Hardcover first edition -. Very good condition in gray cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine (faint stamp of previous owner, some rubbing and wear to cloth covers, but gilt lettering on spine is bright, binding is sturdy, pages are clean and supple.) Uncommon in all printings. . First thus - the 'second edition' Originally published in 1882, this classic account of the missionary work in the Hawaiian Islands was 'gathered from letters and journal extending over a period of more than 50 years selected and arranged by herself.' Thurston arrived in Hawaii in 1820 and died there in 1876, and this book provides a great deal of detail about life in Hawaii as well as the work of the missionaries. This second edition, one of just 1000 copies, includes a new introduction by Lorrin A. Thurston, a reproduction of the original title page, and is the first to include 16 additional illustrations, some from engravings, others from drawings by… Read More

Ann Arbor: S.C. Andrews, 1882. First edition. 8vo, 307 pp. Original brown cloth, some mild staining. Rebacked preserving the original backstrip. "Poorly printed and produced, with the result that many copies are in rather shabby condition," Forbes 3492.