John Stuart Mackenzie: First Edition (5 results)
Published by The Poetry Review, London 1959
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- First Edition
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 59pp. Rubbing, edgewear, and a long tear on the rear panel, good. This issue features Hugh MacDiarmid, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Naomi Mitchison, Douglas Young, A.V. Stuart, Alexander Buist, William Kean Seymour, David Low, C. Day Lewis, Sir Franc…is Meynell, Canon Adam Fox, John Smith, Lady Margaret Sackville, Vernon Scannell, and Margaret Stanley-Wrench. Additional contributors include Gilbert Thomas, Paul Selver, Ilko Iliev, Paula Nelson, Phyllis M. Scott, Canon Adam Fox, Mary Field, Rita Spurr, M. Shand Smith, Evelyn D. Bangay, Stephen Graham, Kathleen Valmai Richardson, Joan Forman, Geoffrey Johnson, Geoggrey Dearmer, Herbert Palmer, Robert Armstrong, and Kennedy Williamson.
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Published by Williams & Norgate, London 1936
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- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. pp 175. Photographic portrait of Mackenzie and his wife as frontispiece. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Boards rubbed, especially to edges; spine strongly faded; rear joint starting to crack at head and tail. Light foxing to endpapers and preliminary pages; otherwise…clean. Gutters starting to crack in a couple of places but text block remains firmly bound.
Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45 [Construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway -- The "Fepow" prayer -- Introduction -- Part one. Surrender -- Interlude : "We feel let down rather" -- Changi -- Interlude : Christmas in captivity -- The railway of death -- Interlude : A walk along the River Kwai -- The real story of the bridge on the River Kwai -- Interlude : Boon Pong -- "Speedo" -- Interlude : Smokey Joe's -- Sonkurai : Valley of the Shadow of Death --
MacArthur, Brian ; James Sanders, Rod Suddaby, Margaret Lewis, Peter Stanley, David Joliffe, Roland Philipps, Hilary Rubenstein, Ursula Mackenzie, David Young, Stephen Guise, Peter Cotton, Nann de Sautoy, Diane Spivey, Tamsin Barrack, Alan Samson, Robert Loomis, Evan Camfield, Daniel Barrett, Robin Glendenning, Peter Field, Duncan Stuart, Philip Parr, ; prisoners, Stephen Alexander, Lewis Altman, James Bradley, Jack Chalker, Tom Evans, Stanley Gimson, Reuben Kandler, Peter Jamieson, Eric Lomax, James Mudie, Ray Parkin, Nowell Peach, Charles Peall, Fred Ryall, Arthur Titherington, John Stewart Ullman, Loet Velmans
Language: English
Published by New York : Random House, c2005.xxx, 458 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm. 2005
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xxx, 458 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm. ; LCCn 2004054193 ; ISBN 9781400064137, 1400064139 ; OCLC 56413352 ; black cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Author's note -- Map : Construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway -- The "Fepow" prayer -- Introduction -…- Part one. Surrender -- Interlude : "We feel let down rather" -- Changi -- Interlude : Christmas in captivity -- The railway of death -- Interlude : A walk along the River Kwai -- The real story of the bridge on the River Kwai -- Interlude : Boon Pong -- "Speedo" -- Interlude : Smokey Joe's -- Sonkurai : Valley of the Shadow of Death -- Interlude : Ave Maria -- The railway opens -- Part two. Survival -- Cooks Food -- Religion -- Jungle medicine -- Smoking Gone with the Wind -- King Rat -- Letters -- Entertainment -- Sports -- Ingenuity -- The "canaries" -- Officers and gentlemen -- Part three. The hellships -- Interlude : A happy ending -- Japan -- Interlude : The "Jap-happy" -- Haruku -- Interlude : A conjuring trick -- Sandakan -- Interlude : Mozart -- Changi 1944-45 -- Interlude : "Don't let this thing drag on much longer" -- Freedom -- Interlude : Bushido -- Home at last -- Epilogue : The last post -- Postscript : What became of them? ; FINE/FINE. Book.
More imagesPublished by Macmillan, 1931., London: 1931
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8vo. ix, [1], 122, [2] pp. Index. Original full dark green blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; small label removed from spine. Embossed stamp of the Carnegie Institution, Mount Wilson Observatory. Very good+. First edition. John Stuart Mackenzie was a professor of logic and philosophy at the University College, Cardiff.
The Wide World Magazine, June 1929 - "Chink Running" Cover Illustration
Wilson, J.F.; "Billy See"; Nolan, John H.E.; Bodley, R.V.C.; MacLeod, Captain Jack; Taylor, Carl N.; Adams, W.H.; Stuart, Murray; Charnley, W.; Mackenzie, Lieut.-Colonel Donald; "Gundi"; "The Captain"; Melville, Fred. J.
Published by George Newnes Limited, London 1929
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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Au…stralia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Holloway, Cyril; Sutcliffe, Norman; Tennant, Dudley; Wigfull, W.E.; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Sindall, A.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Holloway, Cyril; Sindall, A.W. (illustrator).
