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1 BOOTHBY, Robert, Sir. Josiah Wood Lectures, 1956 Citizenship of the Free World
1956, 
BOOTHBY, Sir Robert, K.B.E. Citizenship of the Free World : A Plea for Organic Union. Sackville, N.B.: Mount Allison University, (1956). Pp (8),1-70,(2), port.frontis. 12mo, maroon cloth. Fine. 15.00

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2 BURGESS, Robert H. and H. Graham WOOD WOOD, H. Graham Steamboats Out of Baltimore. inscribed in dj.
Tidewater Publishers, a division of Cornell Maritime Press, Cambridge, MD, 1968, 
BURGESS, Robert H. and H. Graham WOOD. Steamboats Out of Baltimore . Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, a division of Cornell Maritime Press, 1968. First American Printing. Pp. (6),vii-xx,[1]-236, including frontis. Illustrated. Large 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A wonderfully illustrated history of the Chesapeake steamboats, covering the large packets of the Old Bay Line and the Chesapeake Line, as well as the numerous smallerfleets that serviced the Baltimore area during the nineteenth and early-tw entieth centuries. Contents: 1. Early Steamboat Lines to the Western Shoresof Maryland and Virginia; 2. Early Steamer Routes to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia; 3. Weems Steamboat Company; 4. Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company (Ericsson Line); 5. Maryland Steamboat Company; 6. Eastern Shore Steamboat Company; 7. Choptank Steamboat Company; 8. Wheeler Transportation Line; 9. Chester River Steamboat Company; 10. Queen Anne's Ferry and Equipment Company; 11. Pennsylvania Railroad Steamboat Lines; 12. Western Shore Steamboat Company; 13. Baltimore, Crisfield and Onancock Line(New Castle Terminal Company); 14. Chesapeake Steamship Company; 15. Balti more Steam Packet Company (Old Bay Line); 16. Stony Creek Steamboat Company; 17. Rock Creek Steamboat Company; 18. Tolchester Steamboat Company; 19. Wilson Line, Inc.; 20. Miscellaneous Companies; 21. Miscellaneous Excursion Routes. With an epilogue. With photographs and relevant newspaper clippingslaid in throughout. Slight spine roll, else vg in rubbed, nicked, edgeworn , unclipped dj. Signed with an inscription by Wood on the ffep. 125.00

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3 WOOD, Robert. World in Your Ear. in dj.
MacMillan,, London, 1979, ISBN:0333243102 
WOOD, Robert. A World in Your Ear : The Broadcasting of an Era, 1923-64. Foreword by Robert Dougall. (L.): MacMillan, (1979). Pp 193 + [8] pp of plates. 8vo, red cloth. Mr. Robert Wood was a pioneering broadcaster, producer and technician in BBC radio. In this book Wood gives the reader fascinating glimpses into the personalities of the leaders of the British nation just prior to and during the Second World War. Following is just a partial list of some of the events Wood recorded: "The General Strike; the Crystal Place fire; the Abdication; the coronations of 1937 and 1953; Chamberlain's return from Munich; Churchill's wartime speeches [...] the Grand National and the Boat Race; royal weddings, naval reviews, the launch and maiden voyage ofthe Queen Mary..." -from the dust jacket. Very good in lightly rubbed, pri ce-clipped dj. 20.00

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