Philip Meninsky (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Philip Meninsky (illustrator). 1st Edition. Wide Eyed in Old China by James R Paton. 1974. Hardback. UK first edition. Jacket in very good condition, has not been price clipped, states £3. Book clean throughout. Bookseller Inventory #HFB000265.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 160 pages. 9.06x6.06x0.55 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Philip Meninsky (illustrator). Hardcover: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket: Good Condition. Binding Tight And Secure. Pages Clean And Bright Throughout. Some Foxing To Jacket. Photograph Is Added By Selling Site And Not Ours, Therefore May Not Reflect This Edition Or Condition.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. RONALD SEARLIE & PHILIP MENINSKY (illustrator). NOTE FOR OVERSEAS BUYERS: HEAVY BOOK TO SHIP FROM THE UK WHICH WILL REQUIRE A SLIGHTLY INCREASED POSTAGE FEE IN ADDITION TO OUR STANDARD RATE SHOWN, PLEASE EMAIL FOR PRICE-DETAILS IF RELEVANT. Excellent fine condition book throughout with no inscriptions, contains a f/p and illustrations by Ronald Searle and Philip Meninsky plus map e/papers./.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Philip Meninsky (illustrator). First Edition. From the Library of Sir John Mills and Mary Mills. Signed and inscribed by James Paton to John Mills "To John Mills Happy Memories (rd. page 48) Jim Paton" Pages 48 and 49 refer to a young John Mills coming over to China with his theatre company, The Wilson Barrett Company, and putting on a number of memorable performances. 1974 First Edition. Size 8" x 5", 246 pages. Light blue cloth covered boards with gilt dragon on the front cover, Pastedowns and endpapers hand-drawn maps of China. Book condition near fine, corners and spine edges slightly rubbed, else fine. Dustjacket condition near fine, edges slightly rubbed, very slightly grubby, else fine, not price clipped. A Scot who worked for Sun Life in the Far East before World War 2.The book, privately printed, records his impressions of China.The illustrator, Philip Meninsky, was a Prisoner of War under the Japanese in World War 2 and his drawings were used in the War Crime Trials. He is collected and has exhibited in Scotland. Signed by Author(s).

Ronald Searle and Philip Meninsky (illustrator). Rare first edition with number line, signed on the half title by illustrator which reads "With love to John & Carol Philip Meninsky" Philip Meninsky had a unique outlook on prisoners of war under the Japanese. After a first posting to Scotland, he was then sent to the Far East where he was captured in 1942 after the fall of Singapore. He spent the next three years working on the Death Railway where he recorded the lives of POWs by secretly making detailed drawings of camp life. These drawings were subsequently used as evidence in the trials of war criminals.[1] At one point, rendered skeletal by starvation, he developed tropical ulcers on his legs, and was transferred to Chunkai hospital camp, where his limbs were saved from amputation by Edward Dunlop and Major Arthur Moon.[2] His work from this period is largely held by the Imperial War Museum in London, England, but there is at least one in the State Library of Victoria in Australia, and the Australian War Memorial.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Philip Meninsky (illustrator). Gouache, signed lower right P.Meninsky. In oak frame with mount. Glazed. Bold image of trees, roots and a sleeping figure, perhaps for a theatre of from a fairy tale. Image is 52cm by 36cm.