Kreefft (11 résultats)

Softcover. Etat : Good. Paperback, oblong, circa 29x21cm, illustrated with full page colour drawings.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book condition is near fine. Soft copy. No dust jacket. Book boards are clean & unmarked front and back of the book. Book block is clean & unmarked all side of the book. Spine Intact. Text body clean & unmarked throughout the book. Overall a excellent and neat copy of the book. 77 Pages. The core takeaway: Otto Kreefft's Burma Railway: A Visual Recollection is a historically significant illustrated memoir created by a former Dutch POW who worked on the Thailand-Burma Railway. It combines firsthand narrative with detailed colour drawings that document daily life, suffering, engineering work, and the resilience of POWs. Otto Kreefft was born in Java (then the Dutch East Indies). When Japan invaded in 1941, he was a conscript in an anti‑aircraft unit. After the KNIL surrendered, he was taken prisoner and transported to Burma to work on the Burma-Thailand Railway, also known as the Death Railway. He survived captivity and was recovered in Thailand at the end of WWII. His later life included evacuation to the Netherlands in 1957 after Indonesian independence. His artistic recollections became one of the most vivid visual records of POW life on the railway. This copy is the first copy in English, 2004. Otto Kreefft (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. * PUBLISHER : COLOFON * YEAR : 2008 * ISBN : 9780646483498 * No OF PAGES : 79 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE ILLUSTRATED COVER BOARDS ARE LIGHTLY RUBBED WITH MILD BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS. THE SPINE IS SLIGHTLY RUBBED WITH MINOR BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS. THE BINDING IS FIRM. THE PAGES AND ILLUSTRATIONS ARE CLEAR AND CRISP. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK. OTTO KREEFFT (illustrateur).…

Softcover. Etat : FINE. AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HISTORY WORLD WAR II -ÂDutch and Australian POWS on the Burma Railway.First English edition. Originally published in Dutch language in 1998 titled "Birma Spoorweg een visuele herinnering". Translated by John Webb, Netteke Crombie and Otto Kreefft.Published in Australia by Australian SAS Association (WA)77 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 30 cm. #010622/020723 Q SCARCEKreefft, Otto.ÂÂ|ÂÂBurma-Siam Railroad.ÂÂ|ÂÂWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.ÂÂ|ÂÂWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch.ÂÂ|ÂÂWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.   Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 77pp incl maps and striking full-page colour drawings by the author. First English edition. Originally published in the Dutch in 1998 titled "Birma Spoorweg een visuele herinnering". Translated by John Webb, Netteke Crombie and Otto Kreefft. Landscape format 300mm X 210mm.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, 2007. Hardcover, 80 pp. A former Dutch prisoner of war visually recounts his experience as forced labor during World War II, building the railroad between Burma and Thailand. Over 12,000 prisoners of war, including 3,000 Dutch, lost their lives in this endeavor. In fine condition. No dust jacket, as issued. Uncommon.…

8Vo Obl. Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 3rd Ed. 79pp. Pictorial boards, black/green lettering. Text and illustration is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are secure, textblock is square with pointed corners. Slightest if any overall shelf/timewear.

Hardback. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. Third English Edition. Hardback. Important visual record of the POW's on the Burma-Siam railway. The artist a Dutch POW has produced some very powerful and well crafted coloured paintings of the building of the railway and the suffering of the prisoners. 3rd English Edition 2008. 80pp., numerous full page mainly coloured illustrations. Near fine with illustrated boards, no dw as published.…

Laminated Board. Etat : Very Good++. No Jacket. 3rd English Edition. 79pp., laminated board covers, landscape format. Slight edgewear and rubbing on cover, spine ends bumped, excellent internally. Foreword is written by Rod Beattie, founder of the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre in Thailand, who has also signed 'To Jack with my Greatest admiration, Rod Beattie' below the foreword. Drawings, in bw and colour, with some narration alongside, made by the author 40 years after he was a prisoner of the Japanese working on the Burma-Thailand Railway in World War II. The drawings record the daily life in the camps, for which little photographic evidence is available. Kreefft, Otto (illustrateur). Signed by writer of foreword.…

Decorated hard cover. Third English edition. Illustrated in black, white and color by the author. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. As new. 80 pps.

Book Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Museum Bronbeek, 2008. 3rd Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. Oblong format book in VG condition in laminated pictorial boards, with minor wear and rubbing. Illustrated. 79pp.