Sidney Woods (71 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover. No DJ. Minimal edge wear. White color pictorial boards. May have other minor incidental cosmetic defects expected with age. Else tight and square. Index. Glossary. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. All images are stock photos, not of the actual item. Photo requests encouraged prior to purchase. KIDS/EDU/SERIES. John Harwood, Sally Launder, David Pratt, Sylvia Treadgold, Sidney Woods (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0807845493. Trade Paperback. Later Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. No Signature.

Condition: good, ex-lib. First U.S. Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, 160, wraps, color illus., usual library markings.

Condition: New. King, Sidney E (illustrator).

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Colonel John Pelham: Lee's Boy Artillerist. King, Sidney E (illustrator). Book.

Condition: New. King, Sidney E (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good with good dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn and torn at spine tips, is worn at the corners, is spotted along back spine edge and on inside, and has three edge tears of one inch or shorter. 185 pages with index and 36 illustrations.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. King, Sidney E (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Price clipped DJ in mylar cover. Endpapers browed from old newspaper article, since removed.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 185 pages. Illustrated by Sidney E. King (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xiii, 185 pp. The jacket is price-clipped. Sidney E. King (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xiii, [1], 198 p. Illustrations. Glossary. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index. William Woods Hassler was President of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the author of A. P. Hill: Lee's Forgotten General; Confederate Heroes and Heroines and other books. In 1993, inspired by Dr. Hassler's special example, the Hassler Award was inaugurated to honor individuals who make especially meritorious contributions to the field of Civil War education. Even before the end of the Civil War Colonel John Pelham had become a legendary figure of the Confederacy. General Lee called him "the gallant Pelham, " and on seeing the young artillerist employ but a single gun to hold up the advance of three Union divisions and over a hundred guns at Fredericksberg, he exclaimed: "It is glorious to see such courage in one so young." "Stonewall" Jackson, who relied implicitly on Pelham in tight situations said: "It is really extraordinary to find such nerve and genius in a mere boy. With a Pelham on each flank I believe I could whip the world." "Jeb" Stuart, the dashing cavalry chief, claimed that "John Pelham exhibited a skill and courage which I have never seen surpassed. I loved him as a brother." Major John Esten Cooke, a fellow-officer and tent-mate, wrote: "He is the bravest human being I ever saw in my life." And one of Pelham's veteran gunners asserted: "We knew him--we trusted him--we would have followed him anywhere, and did." Shortly after the outbreak of hostilities in the spring of 1861, Cadet Pelham slipped away from West Point to join the Confederacy. Following the fierce Battle of First Manassas, in which he fought side-by-side with "Stonewall" Jackson, Pelham was assigned to "Jeb" Stuart's command with orders to organize the Stuart Horse Artillery. This mounted unit--dashing from action to action on the battlefield--provided General Lee's army with invaluable mobile firepower which saved many desperate situations. In over sixty battles Pelham's blazing guns saw furious action against Union infantry, cavalry, artillery, gunboats and even locomotives. Although he fought against tremendous odds, Pelham never lost an artillery duel or a single gun! Colonel Pelham was an outstanding figure on the battlefield and off. The modest, boyish-looking commander of the Horse Artillery was as calm and popular with his gunners under fire as he was with beautiful Southern belles in the ballroom. This action-packed book fully describes the incredible feats of the adventurous, romantic artillery genius of the Confederacy. From Wikipedia: "John Pelham (September 7, 1838 March 17, 1863) was an artillery officer who served with the Confederate cavalry under J.E.B. Stuart during the American Civil War. Dubbed "The Gallant Pelham" for his military prowess and personal courage, Pelham revolutionized the usage of light artillery as a mobile arm of the cavalry. Pelham was the third of seven children, with five brothers and a sister Betty, born to Dr. Atkinson and Martha Pelham (nee McGehee) at his grandparents' home along Cane Creek near Alexandria, Alabama. He grew up on the family's 1, 000-acre (400 ha) plantation, and learned to raise horses at a young age. On one occasion, he rode a neighbor's milk cow until it ran dry, prompting a lecture to only ride bulls in the future, if he were feeling adventurous. In 1856, local Congressman Sampson Willis Harris secured an appointment for Pelham to the United States Military Academy at West Point (N.Y. ), at the request of A. J. Walker. Already in 1860, rumblings of Southern secession were affecting Pelham, his concerns that he would not be able to graduate expressed in letters he wrote home. In 1861, with graduation approaching and war breaking out, Pelham wrote to the new leader of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, inquiring as to whether he should leave West Point. Ultimately, Pelham resigned from West Point, just a few weeks before his planned graduation, in order to accept a co. King, Sidney E. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. pelham's career highlighted. Sidney E. King (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 160pp, illustrated bound in red cloth covers with dustwrapper; 11.70 X 9.30 X 0.90 inches; 160 pages.

Condition: Acceptable. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (However the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but the notes cannot obscure the text. Book may be a price cutter or have a remainder mark.

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Very Good. HARDBACK EDITION. NO D/J.VERY GOOD CLEAN COPY SENT NEXT WORKING DAY FROM THE U/K 0.0.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. King, Sidney E (illustrator).

Condition: New. King, Sidney E (illustrator).

Condition: New. King, Sidney E (illustrator).

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Tapa Dura En Tela. Condition: Excelente. Le Falta. En Castellano. ---El precio de los gastos de envío está calculado para libros con un peso máximo de1 kg superando el kg los gastos de envió serán mayores, - Los pedidos fuera de la península: Baleares ,Canarias, Ceuta y Melilla tienen un coste adicional, consúltenos antes de realizar su pedido, los libros usados pueden tener o no firma del anterior propietario- Size: Cuarto Mayor 27x20-156 Pag. Sidney W. Woods (illustrator). Consulta.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Second Edition. A fine second edition copy.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. King, Sidney E (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. King, Sidney E (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11.75 inches. 167, [1] pages. Illustrations. The illustrated DJ has some wear, tears and soiling. Dick van der Art was the Deputy Foreign Editor of the Dutch NOS Television News. He was a prolific author, contributing many newspaper and magazine articles dealing with aviation and defense developments. He wrote Aerial Espionage after intensive research which took more than ten years. Derived from a posting by David Roos found on line: In the early 1790s, the French first experimented with using hydrogen-filled balloons for battlefield reconnaissance. The balloons didn't actually fly over enemy lines; they were tethered to the ground by cables. The baskets held two soldiers: one manning a telescope and the other signaling observations to the ground with flags. The French balloonists formed the world's first air force in 1794 called the Compagnie d'Aéronautiers. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the American inventor and showman Thaddeus Lowe staged a balloon demonstration on the National Mall that convinced Abraham Lincoln to employ tethered balloons in the Union Army. The largest Union reconnaissance balloon, the Intrepid, could carry five people, including a telegraph operator to relay information about Confederate positions. While fighting in the Spanish-American War of 1898, William Eddy built a kite-mounted camera and used it to snap bird's-eye photos of enemy positions. Although photography existed during the Civil War, it was Eddy's kite that took the first military aerial surveillance photos in recorded history. Airplanes first went to war during World War I. Those early aircraft were used for reconnaissance. The two-seater planes carried a pilot and an observer, who observed enemy troop deployments with the help of binoculars. Then came cameras. The Eastman Kodak company in America designed some of the first aerial cameras to be hard-mounted on the side of British-made de Havilland DH-4 aircraft. Other World War I cameras could snap photos through a hole in the cockpit floor. At its headquarters in Rochester, Kodak ran the U.S. Aerial Photography School, an intensive training program for American soldiers tasked with developing surveillance photos under battlefield conditions. By World War II, surveillance planes started carrying a onboard darkroom for developing and analyzing aerial photos. During the Cold War, it became almost impossible to collect intelligence on the ground in the Soviet Union, so America's spy agencies turned to the skies. The U2 'spyplane' was equipped with a Hycon 73B camera, capable of capturing details as small as 2.5 feet wide from dizzyingly high altitudes. In 1962, a U2 captured images of Soviet nukes in Cuba, providing the impetus for the Cuban Missile Crisis. For the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the space race was about more than being the first to reach the moon. The nations' intelligence agencies were also racing to get the first spy satellites in orbit. The first jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs/drones) were employed in the Vietnam War as part of a secret American reconnaissance program. The AQM-34 Ryan Firebee, which ran more than 34,000 surveillance missions during the war, was equipped with radar-absorbing blankets and anti-radar paint to give it stealth capabilities. In addition to tracking Viet Cong positions and spotting targets, the Firebee was also used to scatter propaganda leaflets behind enemy lines. Aerial espionage in the 21st century continues to use exoatmospheric satellites, crewed aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles as key pillars the aerial reconnaissance infrastructure and operations. First English Language Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. King, Sidney E (illustrator).

hardcover with dustjacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; 1st Printing. No names or markings. Beige cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Dustjacket is gray pictorial. Both are in fine condition. ; 5 3/4"-8 1/4"; 185 pages. Illustrated by Sidney E. King (illustrator).

Condition: New. King, Sidney E (illustrator).

Condition: New.