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Hard Back. Condition: Book With All Faults. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First American Edition. 325 pages. BOOK WAS DAMAGED IN A FIRE IN STORES-however as it is perportedly signed by author on free end-paper with an inscription & a first edition. BOARDS ALMOST DETACHED-Page edges are BLACKENED, blackening/darkening to 60% of front board, 60% of rear & 80% of spine which was lightly faded anyway, title to spine still legible. Smoke darkening to end-papers which were browned anyway. Inner front hinge is split open & hanging in 2 threads, inner rear hinge split & holding on threads. 2cm square scuff to top rear board, small scuff to edges, small white blotches to top front. Some wear to corners, wear to spine-ends which are starting to fray. Light yellowing to margins of text which is otherwise clean. Attractive b/w illustrations & b/w photos of the period. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Light brown cloth over boards with lettering on spine and front cover stamped in dark brown. Light wear to covers; corners pushed. Inner hinges good. Lightly penciled note on the reverse of the frontispiece, else clean and unmarked. Frontispiece portrait of Ackermann (with tissue guard) plus 28 illustrated plates. 325 pages. Jessie A. Ackermann's record of eight years, 1888-1895, of world travel as a WCTU missionary, paying particular attention to her impressions of women's social position in each country visited. She records her observations from Alaska, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), New Zealand and Tasmania, Japan, China, Siam (Thailand), Java, Burma, and South Africa. She includes a detailed account of her visit to the home of the South African author, Olive Schreiner. Most of the papers comprised in this book appeared in the Ladies's Home Companion during the year 1895. Jessie A. Ackermann (1857-1951) was appointed as the second Round-the-World Missionary of the WCTU in October 1888. She was a powerful advocate for the equal political, legal and property rights of women and also served as the superintendent of the WCTU's anti-opium department.