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KORNGOLD ERICH WOLFGANG ERROL FLYNN THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD FILMABAA

Big Game Ogilvie Grant WR. Arthur Acland HOOD JG. MILLAIS et al. W. R. J. G.ABAA

The Gun at Home and Abroad. British Game Birds and Wildfowl Vol. I. British Deer and Ground Game Dogs Guns and Rifles Vol. II. The Big Game of Africa and Europe Vol. III. The Big Game of Asia and North America Vol. IV

1915266243London: The London & Counties Press Association Ltd 1915. First edition. one of five hundred sets no. 22 vols. I & IV or 111 vols. II & III. Photogravure frontispiece of King George V in each volume. With 59 colored plates and 5 monochrome plates after G. Lodge A. Thorburn V. R. Balfour-Browne and E. Caldwell; 8 tinted photogravures; 206 black-and-white plates chiefly halftone; most with captioned tissue guards. Numerous illustrations and tables in text. Title pages printed in red and black chapter initials printed in red. 4 vols. Large 4to. Original brown pebbled morocco stamped in gilt t.e.g. rest uncut. Some rubbing to extremities occasional spotting to endsheets light traces of dampstaining in pp. 413-429 and back endpapers of vol. IV. Very good imposing set. First edition. one of five hundred sets no. 22 vols. I & IV or 111 vols. II & III. Photogravure frontispiece of King George V in each volume. With 59 colored plates and 5 monochrome plates after G. Lodge A. Thorburn V. R. Balfour-Browne and E. Caldwell; 8 tinted photogravures; 206 black-and-white plates chiefly halftone; most with captioned tissue guards. Numerous illustrations and tables in text. Title pages printed in red and black chapter initials printed in red. 4 vols. Large 4to. Truly encyclopedic in its scope The Gun at Home and Abroad encompasses all aspects of shooting from stag hunting technique and statistics to tips on burning grouse moors in autumn to accounts of African big game hunts that blend solid observation with colorful anecdote. A lavishly produced and richly informative work documenting the sporting life of a bygone era. Phillips p. 151; Riling 1734; Litchfield p. 74; Chute 482; Czech Asia p. 45 The London & Counties Press Association Ltd unknown books

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis4 500,00 $US≈ 3 807,45 €

Thomas Wallace HoodABAA

THAT OLD NAVY SCRAP BOOK OF MINE; IT'S CRAMMED FULL OF PICTURES AND HAPPENINGS OLD OF THE DAYS THAT ARE NOW LEFT BEHIND." An extensive sailor's archive a huge scrapbook hundreds of photographs and five oral history tapes documenting his pre-WWII service on the flagship of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet

1931009726U.S.S. Pittsburgh at Hawaii Guam Philippines China Hong Kong Japan Borneo Siam Singapore Java Ceylon etc. 1931. Album. Very good. This archive consists of an 8" x 14" 300-page scrapbook filled with articles clippings photographs cartoons newsletters assorted ephemera. Hood used 86 pages in the rear of the album to keep a daily journal. The archive also includes more than 100 loose photographs and another 20 loose documents letters certificates and membership cards as well as five 90-minute cassette tapes in which Hood provides an oral history of his naval service. Everything is in nice shape. The scrapbook includes a promotion to "Student Petty Officer First Class" an Independence Day dinner menu a machinist's mate's test a duty roster pages of printed and manuscript naval related poems and photographs of facilities and ships at Hampton Roads and the railroad trip that took him to California and eventual service on the U.S.S. Pittsburgh. The remainder of the album includes mementos of his service on the ship including an invitation to a reception Governor of the Philippines Dwight F. Davis and a program published by the ship describing his retirement cruise naval related clippings and cartoons about life in Asia business cards cafes bars tea houses advertisements dance hall cabaret eating houses a label for Asahi Beer an advertising handbill for a ship's party an initiation â€˜subpoena' from Neptunus Rex a Singapore hotel brochure and theater ticket a colorful multipage timetable for the Royal Dutch Indian Airways and much more. Hood's well-written three-year diary begins with his departure from Norfolk on a five-day train trip to California where he and 5000 other sailors boarded an old transport ship for duty in the Pacific. In addition to commentary about daily ship-board life and duty as machinist's mate it includes many other lively observations events and happenings during his time on-board. Some excerpts include: "Battle manouvers . . . chasing torpedoes. . . Speed speed speed all the time. . . Thirty one knots and no smoke. Dropped a depth bomb and then . . . picked up dead fish . . . for dinner. . . Had target practice . . . fired the torpedoes and raised Hell. . . We put out 14 shells on the #4 gun 82 on #3 all star shells and 32 small star shells on #5 anti aircraft gun. Fired a torpedo also. Pretty sight. Star shells breaking over the target and four ships all firing at once. . . And oh! What a surprise I was appointed to mess cooking . . . three months of washing dishes and peeling spuds." Subsequently for days Hood "peeled spuds . . . spuds and onions . . . more spuds . . . and more onions. . . Lost a man overboard . . . never found. Sharks got him I guess." On another " In February Hood "Got a â€˜shot' . . . Every body is getting them some kind of preparation for the Southern cruise. . . Going to the fights tonight. . A typhoon is just ahead of us. . . Got woke up about 3:30 this morning drenched to the hide. The hatch was open and we shipped about 50 gallons of ocean not so hot. . . Kobe all kinds of Japanese merchants aboard selling souvenirs. . . Walked around all day. . . I like it very much. The people are polite and clean and they will do anything for an American gob. . . Proceeded up the Yangtze River . . . very pretty scenery coming up the river and there are English Japanese and Chinese men-o-war here in Yanking. . . . Well I can say I've been ashore in Shanghai and Tsing-Tao. . . Made the rounds of the cabarets and did some dancing. Also drank a few. . . Went to the â€˜Marine's CafÃ©'. . . Lots of Russians here. . . Made the cabarets again. Very pretty. The girls all in native costume. . . The Exec says no more liberty until further notice as a couple of fellows made an ass of themselves in Chefoo . . . Underway at daylight for . . . Hainan just off the French-Indo-China coast to protect the American interests and missionaries. During the 1920s-1930s Hainan was a hotbed of early Communist Chinese activity. This place is held by the rebel army now and the Nationalist are trying to take it over. Some excitement perhaps. . . The battle of Haihow was fought today and the town was taken over by the Nationalists. Very few killed. Not a shot fired in the town." There over 100 loose photos showing shipmates casual and posed images in various uniforms; including a Filipino mess steward and laundryman recreation soccer team and race-boat equator ceremony with Davy Jones Neptunus Rex etc. the bridge running torpedoes an officer's gig and bum boats. About 45 show sailors on liberty in the Bali Borneo Ceylon China French Indo-China Java Philippines Singapore Sumatra Thailand Villafranca Naples and Pompeii. Documents within the archive include Hood's Birth Certificate his 1927 Discharge a Statement of Service from 1938 a post-WWII certificate recognizing his service in the Office of Scientific Research and Development a post-WWII discharge certificate as a Sergeant in the Massachusetts National Guard and a 1992 Certification of Military Service. The ephemera includes membership cards in the Ancient Order of the Deep and Domain of Neptunus Rex a coupon for the Osaka Bazar a drink/dance ticket for the Japanese Bar Tokyo advertisements for a tailor in Shanghai and a silk and curio dealer in Colombo an invitation for a dance aboard the U.S.S. Macleish a Luncheon menu for the Adelphi Hotel in Shanghai and a U.S.S. Pittsburg "Happy Hour" program in honor of Governor Davis. One of the best between-the-wars U.S. Navy scrapbooks we have handled with a desirable accompanying oral history. unknown books

Read 'Em Again Books & Paper · États-Unis900,00 $US≈ 761,49 €

Hood John Bell Judaica Lilienthal TheodoreABAA

THE LATE GEN'L HOOD'S FAMILY. SOLD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE HOOD RELIEF COMMITTEE N.O.

187937334New Orleans: Lilienthal's. 121 Canal Street Touro Building 1879. Cabinet Card oblong 4-1/4" x 6-1/2" depicting Hood's family with portraits of the late General and his wife. Copyright information in white script at bottom of the photo; "Lilienthal Artist" at lower blank margin. Very Good. Title explanatory text and Lilienthal's prominent logo on verso. "In 1867 a German-born Jewish photographer Theodore Lilienthal 1829-1894 advertised the city's post-Civil War recovery through photographs presented at the Paris Exposition as well as to Napoleon III. Lilienthal also promoted New Orleans to northern investors in 1873 through a book of photographs. Lilienthal considered one of New Orleans's most successful photographers later involved himself in spreading the truth about anti-Semitism in the photography field by offering to distribute for free an article criticizing that practice" Pollack Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South Chapter 3. "Part of the first generation of photographers in New Orleans Theodore Lilienthal was the city's most successful nineteenth-century photographic entrepreneur. At the height of his commercial success from 1875 to 1885 he operated one of the largest studios in the South and was recognized as a pioneer of new photographic processes. His work as a portraitist and view maker was unsurpassed in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras" web site of 64parishes article on Lilienthal. Confederate General John Bell Hood-- known for his wild bravery his several serious wounds and his disastrous defeats at Atlanta and Franklin-Nashville-- married Anna Marie Hennen after the War. After producing eleven children in ten years including three sets of twins the General his wife and their oldest daughter contracted yellow fever and died. New Orleans and particularly veterans of Hood's Texas Brigade created the "Hood Relief Committee." In the photograph the ten orphans pose near portraits of their mother and father with a seat at far left open for their deceased sister Lydia. Printed caption on verso notes "Every Picture Sold adds to the Permanent Fund for the Education and maintenance of these 'Wards of the South.' Lilienthal's. 121 Canal Street Touro Building unknown books

David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC · États-Unis875,00 $US≈ 740,34 €

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