Dr donald caskie (6 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition book. Second impression. Includes an acceptable dust jacket with sections of loss to the edges. Expected toning and a little dust largely relegated to the textblock edges. The main body of text is clean with a sturdy binding.…

Condizione: Fair. 1958. 4th Edition. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

Condizione: Good. 1958. 2nd Impression. 270 pages. Purple pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Reprint. This copy is in fine condition bound in light blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The author has signed the f.e.p. "With the compliments and best wishes of Donald C. Caskie. "The Tartan Pimpernel" followed by the author's Ayrshire address. The unclipped dust wrapper is a trifle rubbed but still in fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. On Sunday the 10th June 1940 the Rev. Donald C. Caskie, Minister of the Scottish Kirk in Paris, preached for the last time in four years, said goodbye to his congregation, locked the church joined the mass-exodus from the city. A Highlander, he denounced Hitler from his pulpit. He was the Gestapo 'Black list'. After a perilous journey he was mobbed by French villagers who thought him a German paratrooper and machine gunned from the air - he arrived in Marseilles and commandeered the British Seaman's Mission near the Old Harbour. There the adventures of the 'The Tartan Pimpernel' began. Immediately contacted by Allied Intelligence Officers he was conscripted to service. The Seaman's Mission became a vital link on the escape route for prisoners-of- war and soldiers escaping from Dunkirk. He fed, clothed and gave the men shelter before sending them through the Pyrenees with forged papers to Spain. He collected military information for the Allies. Denounced by a British traitor Dr Caskie was banished to Grenoble where he continued his work as an 'underground padre'. Arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to death in a Nazi Court he passed through seven prisons and was saved from death by a German padre. His story is enlivened by Scottish humour and brilliant character studies of his comrades and enemies. He was awarded the O.B.E. for his services to the Allied cause. Ref J 5. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo, first edition, pp,270, illustrated, gilt titled blue cloth, unclipped dust-jacket which has some wear with a little loss, 1957 Christmas inscription to the leading paste-down endpaper. Caskie was Minister of the Scottish Kirk in Paris denouncing Hitler from his pulpit. He became an underground padre arrested by the Gestapo, sentenced to death but saved by a German padre.…

Cloth. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Missing free front endpaper otherwise very good. Story of a Highland minister, who became minister of Gretna and then minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris, and was denounced by the Nazis. He then joined the Allied Intelligence Officers. 270pp. Blue cloth Size: 8vo.…