Macfarlane Norman C (5 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Revised and enlarged Edition. No stated date c1920. New and revised edition. 187pp. and a frontispiece portrait. This is an intimate biography of Ian Macfarlane (1888-1917), who was born at Cruden, Aberdeenshire, and educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and at Edinburgh University. He worked as medical missionary at Nazareth from 1911 to 1914, but had to leave Palestine when Turkey entered the war. After practice at Juniper Green, he took a temporary commission in the R.A.M.C. as a Lieutenant on the 14th April 1915, and was promoted to Captain after a year's service. He first joined a field ambulance with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front but transferred to the Egyptian Army, where he was appointed to take charge of an isolation Camp (typhus fever) for Turkish prisoners at Khan Junis, near Gaza. Ian succeeded in completely stamping out the typhus without losing a single case, but contracted typhus fever himself. He died at Kantara. The book is bound in the original blue cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards. The spine is slightly faded with light bumping to the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with some browning and foxing to the free endpapers. There is a presentation label on the front free endpaper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. No date. 8vo. Pp 246. Original cloth, spine faded, hinges rubedd and with wear to fore-edges of boards and corner. A sound copy with a nice dated inscription from the author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. No date. 8vo. Pp x, 203. Publisher's list. Original cloth, showing wear and marks. A sound copy.

Condition: Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Cloth. Condition: Average. . 287 pages. Martin was minister of the Free English Church, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis and of Argyll Square United Free Church, Oban; he was a defender of the more liberal figures in the Free Church. Includes account of Revival in Stornoway in 1880. Edges unevenly cut; foxed. Scarce except in generic print-on-demand editions. …