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Dr Thomas-Wood
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First ed 1931
A collection of 140 folk songs, arranged and collated by Thomas Wood
They include sea shanties and various other songs that we remember from our childhood:-

Old King Cole
NickNack, Paddy Whack
Blow the man down
Shenandoah
What shall we do with the drunken sailor
Ten Green bottles.

Written in 1936, this is an autobiography of Thomas Wood.

Published by Jonathan Cape 1936, 316 pages

 
First ed 1938
circa 1938/1940
circa 1953
Reprinted in Australia 1978
"Cobbers" by Thomas Wood

Hardback published by Oxford University Press in 1934
288 pages

A personal record of a journey from Essex, in England, to Australia, Tasmania and some of the reefs and islands in the Coral Sea, made in the years 1930,1931, and 1932

"Cobbers" became a best seller and after 11 impressions was rewritten in 1939.
By 1943 it was on its 18th impression.
It was reprinted again in 1944, 1953 and finally in 1961.

Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1940

A tribute to Australians and the parts played by them in the, as yet, early years of WWII.

Part of the Oxford Musical Essays, Music and Boyhood: Some Suggestions on the Possibilities of Music in Public, Preparatory and Other Schools by author Thomas Wood, M.A., Doctor of Music, Exeter College, Oxford was printed in England at the Oxford University Press in 1925
The hardcover has rough-cut pages bound in a blue, beige and mauve marbled paper-covered boards and a cloth spine. It appears to have been issued with out a dust jacket, measures about 7 ¾" x5 ¾" x ½" and has 66 numbered pages, including an appendix.

This may well have been the first book which Thomas had published.
Now very rare.

"In the Quiet County" for Piano by Thomas Wood

O U P . c1930

piano solo , grade E - F

Original sheet music for a WW2 version of Lillibullero.

Lillibullero is a tune and the words are usually a satirical ballad.

Many versions exist, the orignal in 1689 was about the Williamite war in Ireland. Versions also exist from the American war of Indepandance.

This copy is known as the VICTORY SONG with the words by Eric Linklater to an arrangement by Thomas Wood.

It is the official March of the British Royal Commandoes.

This was/is also used as the signature tune for the BBc World Service.

MASTER MARINERS

Baritone Solo and Male Chorus

Set to Music By
THOMAS WOOD

22 page Music book. In good condition.
1927.
Contains:

1. LUSTILY, LUSTILY.
Words from "A Pleasant Comedie called Common Conditions" 1567.

2. A BALLAD OF CAPE ST. VINCENT.
Words by John Masefield.

3. MASTER MARINERS.
Words adapted from 2nd edition of "Wit and Drollery" 1687.

4. THE GOLDEN CITY OF ST. MARY.
Words by John Masefield.

5. THE BONNY BOYS.
Words adapted from "Wit and Drollery" 1687.