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2008__0415439558Routledge 2008. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 1600 pages. 9.45x6.30x4.72 inches. Routledge hardcover
1793003579Original letter. NELSON Horatio; HOOD Admiral Samuel Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent written from HMS Victory off Toulon Road 20 November 1793. One leaf written on both sides folio 340 × 190 mm written in a secretarial hand and signed by Hood on the reverse side. Paper browned and water-stained multiple edge losses several fold splits and small holes fragile but just about legible throughout. A fair condition letter. Despite its distressed condition this is an exceptional field-worn survivor of one of the pivotal naval operations of the French Revolutionary War directly connecting Hood Nelson and the rise of Napoleon. Writing from his flagship Victory Hood laments the failure of his correspondent to send adequate reinforcements to the besieged allied garrison in Toulon: "It is extremely painful to me to observe that your Excellency's backwardness in sending succours to the full extent of the powers of the Garrison. is most truly dispiriting I wish it may not prove disastrous in the extreme." He warns that "five or six hundred more men by the Terrible or Egmont would have been of far greater service than as many thousands can possibly be a month hence" and closes in frustration that "at this moment I only received from Gibraltar about 103 of British" signing off "Your Excellency's most obedient humble Servant Hood." The letter dates from the critical final weeks of the Toulon campaign when Hood and his subordinate officers-including the young Captain Horatio Nelson then commanding HMS Agamemnon-attempted to hold the port against Republican forces commanded in part by a little-known artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte. Within a month of this letter the allied defence collapsed and Hood was forced to evacuate his fleet marking both Nelson's first combat distinction and the opening act of Napoleon's rise to power. . Fair. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1793. Original letter paperback
18692091202133213112E. Moxon son & co. 1869. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 10 books in total E. Moxon, son, & co. paperback
1860FF2484London:: Edward Moxon 1860. 1860. Small 8vo. viii 310 pp. Original full reddish-brown blind-stamped morocco with gilt spine title all edges gilt; slightly rubbed. The added thumb-holed brown cloth slip-case is made by Frost at the time of his painting. Very good. DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING WITH EROTIC SCENES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST: With a double fore-edge painting showing bawdy "and athletic" erotic scenes painted by Martin Frost signed with both his initials and containing his handwritten colophon at rear dated 1999. Frost has painted two side-by-side fore-edges giving four vignettes in all: "Four scenes of athletic and ingenious lust" The first side shows a copulating man and woman on either a horse or on a carriage drawn by a horse after Thomas Rowlandson's works. Frost's initials are found on the lower right of this side. The reverse side shows two vertical vignettes depicting coitus on a bike rather an imaginary wheeled chair with parasol note the erect penis statue in the background and a stage scene with a partially nude woman lifting her skirt high to give a view of her genitals and a happy pot-bellied man with a huge erect penis that balances a bowl and 3 goblets he is talented! his costume of the British stage his genitals showing as if being the star of the show. An audience whoops it up in the gallies. Both characters sportingly wear a feather in their hair or cap. Edward Moxon, 1860. hardcover books
1880687901880. HOOD John B. Advance and Retreat. Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. New Orleans: Published for the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund. G.T. Beauregard 1880. 1st ed. 358pp. Portrait frontis. portraits maps. Orig. full blind-decorated brown morocco raised spine bands compartments gilt marbled endpapers A.e.g. Very good or better. HOWES H-622. Dornbusch II 2797. In Tall Cotton 93. Coulter 238. "The controversial sometimes bitter memoirs of a maimed Confederate general" Nevins II p.65. Much of the book is devoted to accounts of the siege of Atlanta and the Tennessee campaign. unknown
425524Maryland: 1DR 1979. Softcover. Fine. Quarto measuring 9" x 11.5". Black flexible covers with no spine. Photomechanically printed on the rectos only. Fine. A type written dissertation that acted as the working copy for Ronald Chalmers Hood III's Royal Republicans: The French Naval Dynasties Between the World Wars titled The French Naval Officer Corps 1919-1939. A Social and Political History of France's Naval Dynasties between the World Wars. The study was submitted to the faculty of the graduate school at the University of Maryland in 1979 to partially fulfill the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy. It contains the history of the French republican's values during the world wars with a specific focus on family ideals how schools and prisons were affected and the aftermath of the wars. Included are scanned photographs from the National Archives which include some prominent figures like Admiral Descottes-Genon Admiral Hector Violette General Gouraud Marine Georges Leygues and more. There is a 30 page bibliographical references piece at the end of the essay leaves 254-281. Only 5 copies on OCLC. 1DR unknown
192917063NY: Privately Printed by Arcady Executives. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. First Limited Edition No. 482 of an unknown number Quarter bound in white cloth over paper-covered boards gilt lettering on cover. Printed by William Edwin Rudge of Mount Vernon NY. The volume is profusely illustrated with a color frontispiece by Harry V. K. Henderson aquatints by Donald Douglas as well as photographs by Roger B. Whitman floor plans by the architects Johnson and Brannan and maps. Illustrated endpapers. Preface by Raymond M. Hood. This is an extremely scarce privately and lavishly printed prospectus for a planned luxury golf resort community in coastal South Carolina near Myrtle Beach being developed by a group headed by John T. Woodside between 1926 and 1930. Portions of the planned development were built The Ocean Forest Hotel was completed in 1930 and demolished in 1974 and the Ocean Golf Course and Country Club - now known as Pine Lakes Country Club - were completed by 1930 but the Great Depression put a stop to the development. "Although the Woodside Brothers did not see their plans for Arcady come to fruition they did build the first golfing facility in Myrtle Beach and paved the way for the town to become the golfing Mecca it is today" - from the Myrtle Beach Master Plan. Covers lightly soiled some foxing on endpapers only otherwise unmarked tight square and clean. A beautiful copy of this extremely rare volume. VERY GOOD. Color and B&W Illustrations. Folio 13" - 23" tall. 40 pp . Privately Printed by Arcady Executives hardcover
1993SONG0198258364Oxford University Press 1993-03-18. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.50x1.00x9.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Oxford University Press hardcover
021426n.d. Print. Fine. Richard Thomas Hood. A 6-1/4" x 7-1/2" ORIGINAL ETCHING of Frost by Richard Thomas Hood SIGNED by the artist and by the poet. Attractive image of the poet at a somewhat younger age than typically depicted. From the Artists Series created by Richard Thomas Hood 1910-1993 Philadelphia artist and Director of the Pennsylvania Art Project WPA. <br/><br/> unknown
192917207NY: Arcady Executives. Very Good. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in paper-covered boards the covers are rubbed at the corners. This is the fancy prospectus for the proposed development at Myrtle Beach by John T. Woodside. Grand plans wiped out by the stock market crash of 1929. Includes plans for the grand hotel with b/w photos of the site and a large folding map of the development. Un-numbered copy. Designed and printed by William Edwin Rudge. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 40 pages . Arcady Executives hardcover
185913899London: Griffith and Farran 1859. Very good. Rare first edition of the humorous and somewhat surreal tale of a posh humanized pig his adventures in the city and his eventual demise. Thomas Hood is known for his humorous poems that appeared in "Punch" although he also wrote more sentimental pieces. PRECOCIOUS PIGGY was originally a story he told to his young son Tom and daughter Frances. After Hood's death Tom recorded the story and illustrated it; the original manuscript is now in the Huntington Library. Hood's daughter Frances Freeling Broderip a children's author rising in popularity at the time of PRECOCIOUS PIGGY'S publication tenderly prefaces the story. 9.25'' x 7''. Original pink pictorial boards carefully rebacked. Yellow coated endpapers. Hand-colored pictorial title page with numerous hand-colored illustrations throughout. 19 leaves printed one side only with 1 leaf of ads to rear. Some rubbing to edges corners somewhat bumped. Occasional light soiling to page edges. Illustrations vivid. Griffith and Farran unknown
196229739Toronto: Ryerson 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Hood Hugh. FLYING A RED KITE. Stories. Signed. Toronto: Ryerson 1962. 8vo. 239pp. Grey cloth covered boards with red stamped spine titles. First edition of the author's First Book. With a blurb by Robert Weaver on the rear panel of the dust jacket. One of Hood's personal copies. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "This is an 'author's' copy / of the first edition / October 26th 1962 / with complements / and best wishes of / Hugh". A fine copy in like dustwrapper showing very light use. A much nicer than usual copy in a most desirable state.$1175.00. Ryerson hardcover
1906008184London: Hurst & Blackett Limited 1906. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. ix 326 pages plus two pages of publisher's adverts. 5.5 X 8 inches. Name on the front pastedown crossed through. small mark on the front free endpaper and offsetting to front and rear endpapers. Very good copy slight rubbing to edges all clean and sound throughout. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hurst & Blackett Limited Hardcover
1986015464Pro Ed 1986-07-01. Paperback. Very Good. Pro Ed paperback
1869733P8London: E. Moxon Son & Co 1869. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A complete collection of the works of Thomas Hood containing his entertaining and humorous poems. Complete in ten volumes.A collection of the poetry and works of Thomas Hood.Hood was a popular English poet of the first half of the nineteenth century best known for his poems 'The Bridge of Sighs' and 'The Song of the Shirt'. He was also a regular contributor to 'The London Magazine' 'Athenaeum' and 'Punch'.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece.Illustrated many in-text illustrations throughout the volumes.Edited with notes by his son Tom Hood and his daughter Frances Freeling Broderip. In a half crushed morocco binding with cloth to the boards. Externally generally smart. Rubbing to the boards and spines resulting in a little loss of leather heavier to the head of the front board of Volume X. A little fading to the spines. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. A small amount of lifting to the head of the front board of Volume IX. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just a couple of light spots. Very Good E. Moxon, Son, & Co hardcover
1838M4741Washington U.S.A. 1838. Excellent. Notes: Map of Oregon Territory before being officially incorporated as a US Territory on August 14 1848.<br><br>Washington Hood February 2 1808 – July 17 1840 was an American born in Philadelphia army officer in the Corps of Topographical Engineers. He drafted maps of the American West while exploring the areas the Ohio Michigan border; northeastern Oklahoma Indian tribes west of Arkansas and Missouri.etc. Size : 443x525 mm 17.375x20.625 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored in Outline Reference: Wheat: 433 and 434. Category: Maps Canada West British Columbia; unknown
1867002987London: George Routledge and Sons 1867. First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. With handwritten letter from Griset to Edward Whymper the renowned mountaineer dated November 22 1881 mounted onto preliminary leaf. Whymper besides being the first to scale the Matterhorn was a wood engraver and illustrator. In this letter Griset thanks Whymper for a cheque and speaks of a desire to make the acquaintance of Whymper soon afterward. As to the book: 4to. 6151 5 pp. With publisher's cloth front cover and spine bound in. The hundred Griset drawings are all hand-colored in this copy. The full calf binding has considerable wear chips and scuffing around the edges and joints. Rebacked with original spine labels laid on. Foxing in prelim pages but overall clean and tight. <br/><br/> George Routledge and Sons unknown books
1867002987London: George Routledge and Sons 1867. First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good. With handwritten letter from Griset to Edward Whymper the renowned mountaineer dated November 22 1881 mounted onto preliminary leaf. Whymper besides being the first to scale the Matterhorn was a wood engraver and illustrator. In this letter Griset thanks Whymper for a cheque and speaks of a desire to make the acquaintance of Whymper soon afterward. As to the book: 4to. 6151 5 pp. With publisher's cloth front cover and spine bound in. The hundred Griset drawings are all hand-colored in this copy. The full calf binding has considerable wear chips and scuffing around the edges and joints. Rebacked with original spine labels laid on. Foxing in prelim pages but overall clean and tight. George Routledge and Sons unknown
1862SET17-F-7London: Edward Moxon and Co. 1862-1863 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". Various. The complete works of Thomas Hood. Edited and with notes by his son Tom Hood the playwright and humorist. Volumes I-VI are published in 1862 with the seventh volume appearing the following year. To these volumes Hood's works are arranged chronologically. These volumes contain his best known lyrics and prose writings including the novel Tynley Hall and lyrics 'The Song of the Shirt' and 'The Bridge of Sighs'. With a portrait frontispiece of Hood to the first volume. Thomas Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine the Athenaeum and Punch. In half calf bindings with paper covered boards. Externally all volumes are smart with a small amount of light rubbing to the head and tail of spines. Small loss to the head of spine to volume VII. Small amount of rubbing to the extremities to all volumes. Internally all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are bright with a few light spots to the first and last few pages. The odd light spot. Very Good Indeed Edward Moxon and Co. hardcover
1876203647542174E. Moxon And Co 1876. Hardcover. Very Good. THIS EXQUISITE BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH ORNATE GILT RULE AND PATTERNING TO BOARDS SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD MARBLED END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS WITH BRIGHT GILT END PAGES. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN WITHOUT MARKS AND MINIMAL FOXING. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED 180 PAGES BOOK MEASURES 11.25"x8.5". 145 YEARS OLD. A STUNNING BOOK IN REMARKABLE CONDITION. E. Moxon And Co hardcover
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 ‘subpoena' from Neptunus Rex a Singapore hotel brochure and theater ticket a colorful multipage timetable for the Royal Dutch Indian Airways and much more.<br/>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 ‘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 ‘Marine's Café'. . . 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
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. <br/><br/> "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. <br/> 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. <br/> 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
183746829London: Whittaker & Co 1837. First edition. 8vo. viii 216 pp. OCLC locates 13 copies New York Botanical Garden U.S. Military Academy Trinity Delaware Chicago Indiana Purdue Boston Athenaeum Harvard National Library of Medicine New Hampshire College of Physicians of Philadelphia Cambridge. Somewhat later half-calf and cloth very soiled and discolored all edges sprinkled red lacking spine label; some insect damage to rear endpaper but a good solid copy. <br/><br/> Whittaker & Co hardcover books
185936685Boston: Thornton and Moffitt 1859. Very good. First American edition of the humorous and somewhat surreal tale of a posh humanized pig his adventures in the city published the same year as the London first. Thomas Hood is known for his humorous poems that appeared in "Punch"although he also wrote more sentimental pieces. PRECOCIOUS PIGGY was originally a story he told to his young son Tom and daughter Frances. After Hood's death Tom wrote down the story and illustrated it; the original manuscript is now in the Huntington Library. Hood's daughter Frances Freeling Broderip a children's author rising in popularity at the time of PRECOCIOUS PIGGY'S publication tenderly prefaces the story. 7.5'' x 5.5''. Original pink pictorial wrappers. Illustrations to every page inconsistently and somewhat crudely hand-colored. 20 pages printed one side only. Some dampstaining to wrappers and shallow chipping at corners; spine reinforced. Light foxing to text. Remarkably intact. Thornton and Moffitt unknown
1999Q-1851493255Antique Collectors Club Dist 1999-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Antique Collectors Club Dist hardcover