Edited Constance Babington Smith (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. Chipped with Paper Loss; Dustjacket is price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this hardcover book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has one small closed tear to the bottom edge of the upper cover.Not price clipped and this copy has one small and neat previous owner's name to the front endpaper.Decent copy for the collector 8vo 382pp First UK Edition 2nd Impression.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 352 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, small creases and chipped pieces. The boards are in good condition. There is foxing around the block and on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book. The pages are complete and legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: VG/VG. First American Edition. New York, NY: Atheneum. VG/VG. 1964. First American Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 352 pp., slight yellowing and fading around edges . Not Illustrated (illustrator).

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: VG/G. First American Edition. New York, NY: Atheneum. VG/G. 1963. First American Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 288 pp., slight yellowing and fading around edges, shelfwear . Frontispiece Photo (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Two Volume Set 1950--1952 is Second Impression and 1952-1958 Volume is a First Edition 1st Impression:Very Good Copies in Good Dust-Jackets with some small nicks to the dust-jackets at head and tail of spines.price clipped to Vol 1 but not to Vol 2 but the Front endpaper of Volume two has been clipped tom top corner of the front endpaper.This set has NO previous names or inscriptions present.The books have firm bindings with no hinge weakness.Uncommon set with a little extra postage required.8vo Vol 1381pp Vol 2 288pp Vol 1 First Edition 2nd Impression 1961 Volume Two First Edition 1st Impression 1962.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardback copy. Spine slightlt faded.382pp, b/w plates.

Hard Back. Dust Jacket Condition: Good -. Bound with red cloth title in gilt to spine Dustjacket shows some wear but otherwise in good condition price unclipped Small inscription to ffep from previous owner pages otherwise unmarred though lightly toned pp 382. book.

Condition: Good. Second impression (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), 382pp. Frontispiece and one plate. Original salmon-pink cloth, dustwrapper. There is some foxing to the edges of the text block, and a short ownership inscription; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (light chafing to one corner). Later impressions had ISBN 0002154560.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavo, 382 pages index, illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Folio, hardcover, near fine in white pictorial boards in somewhat edgeworn green and grey pictorial dj. (with chips and tears at edges) 160 full-page, 12 tipped-in color photos, 29 maps & plans. index. 84 sites are illustrated from around the world. A very handsome coffee-table edition. In exploring the development of the taste for ruins, author has dipped into most periods of history and most countries of the world. The jungle-grown cities of Mexico and India, the abbeys and churches of Europe, the Crusader Castles of the Middle East, the ruins of Greece and Italy, Asia Minor, Africa and China-examples from these and many others find their place in a book which recalls much of the history of mankind by contemplating the great monuments that successive ages have left behind. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback 1964. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. JACKET HAS EDGE WEAR & A FEW TEARS. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref Q225. Jacket design by John Woodcock (illustrator). …

[0-03-021091-7] 1977. (Small 4to) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 240pp. Photographic endpapers, black and white and color photographs, plans, diagrams, illustrations, index. Worn. "Angkor, Crac des Chevaliers, Tintern Abbey, Persepolis, Copan, Troy. Magical ruins, which have cast their spell over some of the greatest writers in the English language. In our time, Rose MacAulay, the sensitive, witty, and astringest English novelist, was possessed by them and impelled to record their mysterious attraction in the evocative, romantic, yet precisely informed prose of Pleasure of Ruins". Edited by Constance Babington Smith. Photographs of Beny, Roloff. (Photography, Antiquities, Archaeology, Photography, Ruins).…

[0-7710-1162-8] [1977]. (Small 4to) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 240pp. Illustrations, index. Dust jacket has some chipping. Edited by Constance Babington Smith. Photographs of Beny, Roloff. (Travel, Antiquities, Ruins).