Editor Constance Babington Smith (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. Blind stamp of previous owner on front end papers.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket Has New Mylar Cover. First American Edition, stated. --------Red cloth covers, 8 1/2" tall. 352 pages, illustrated with photos.-----------------VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight solid binding and hinges, totally clean text- - dust jacket slightly chipped and now protected with new mylar cover.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket. dj. Nice tight, well-preserved copy, in a red cloth binding and clean and unmarked inside and out; binding shows only very minor wear; price-clipped dust jacket is chipped and torn and lightly soiled. Illustrated with b&w plates. Written to Anglican priest Father Hamilton Johnson, these letters written by novelist Rose Macaulay, "one of the most remarkable Englishwomen" of the twentieth century, "have all the qualities which are so much prized in her novels."; 8.5" tall; 288 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE. READ.Minimal wear to hardover book and dust jakcet. Pages are clean, bright and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Collins, London, 1961, second impression; 8vo, 150 x 215mm; pp 382'; frontispiece photograph of Macaulay in 1958; red cloth, spine titled gilt, plain dustwrapper; spine rather faded and ustwrapper frayed at top and foot of the spine but a fair to good copy. . . . . . The friend in question is Fr Hamilton Johnson, an Anglican priest, who Macaulay knew but lost contact with after he moved to the US. His writing of his admiration for Macaulay's then latest book rekindled the remote friendship and these resulted from that. The collection was generally rated highly.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The English writer's correspondence with Father Hamilton Johnson, American Anglican priest in which she explores her intellectual and spiritual life. 1st American edition. Index. 288 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 288 pages.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. Norwich, England: Thames and Hudson. Very Good/Very Good. 1964. . Hardcover w/DJ. Folio, 285pp., dust jacket light shelf wear, some creasing on front and rear panels, otherwise very good; cover light shelf wear at edges and corners, light foxing, otherwise very good; pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White/Color Plates (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 286 Pp. COPYRIGHT 1964. 160 PAGES IN PHOTOGRAVURE, 12 HAND MOUNTED COLOUR PLATES, 29 MAPS AND PLANS OF THE SITES. DESCRIPTION: BLACK/WHITE PICTORAL HARDBOUND, SILVER GILT TITLE ON SPINE COVER, COLOR PICTORAL DUST JACKET. DIMENSIONS: 14" x 10 5/8" x 1 3/8." BOOK CONDITION; VERY GOOD +. DUST JACKET CONDITION: GOOD; 7 " TEAR AT RIGHT SIDE OF FRONT COVER, 1/2" TEAR AT FRONT CROWN HINGE, RUBBED IN AREAS (PRIMARILY EXTREMITIES/REAR COVER). A NICE CLEAN TIGHT COPY. ETS BRAUN ET CIE, TRINI A.G. FUR, TIEFDRUCKERZEUGUISSE (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated leatherette boards with beautiful striking photo to front wrapping around spine onto back. Large folio sized book is tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of markings and flaws inside and out - nice illustrated endpapers. Fine. Unclipped pictorial Dust Jacket shows moderate scuffing and some repaired tears but has no fading. 160 photogravure images, 12 color plates including a frontispiece, and 29 maps and plans. This is the Time-Life / International Book Society production from 1966. Fantastic production showing photographs by Roloff Beny detailing Rose Macaulay's long book about her aesthetic enjoyment of ruins and ruination. Includes sites in Cambodia, Burma, Ceylon, China, Cyprus, Ireland, England, Greece, Guatemala, India, Honduras, Libya, Mexico, Peru, Scotland, Sicily, Syria, Turkey, Wales, the West Indies, Yugoslavia, Jordan, Lebanon, Italy, Iraq and Iran. …

Cloth. Condition: Good+. FIRST EDITIONS, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR-EDITOR. 8vos, incl. b/w plates. Original red, green and blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Extremities bruised and bumped, foxed and toned. Inscribed by Smith in blue ink to ffep of each volume: "Inscribed for Peter Carpenter by Constance Babington Smith, 1986". Else, clean and tight. In the original dust jackets by John Woodcock and M. Mohan: price-clipped, spines sunned, foxed and toned, some losses, nicking and staining. Good+/good+ A pleasing association quartet, comprising the three volumes of Macaulay's Letters and Constance Babington Smith's biography of her cousin, all inscribed by the the WAAF photo intelligence officer. Published posthumously and edited by Smith, Letters to a Friend (1961) and Last Letters to a Friend (1962) comprise Macaulay's post-war correspondence with another "distant cousin", the Revd J. H. C. Johnson, which played a key role in the author re-entering the Church of England in 1950 "after a long estrangement" (ODNB). The third volume, Letters to a Sister (1964), includes a selection of letters to Macaulay's sister Jean, plus a fragment of Venice Besieged, the novel she was working when she died. Smith's biography of her cousin appeared eight years later in 1972. Constance Babington Smith MBE, FRSL (1912-2000) was an author and photographic interpreter for the RAF. Trained by its Photographic Development Unit, Smith worked in photo intelligence and, unusually for a WAAF, set up and led the Unit's aircraft recognition section. From 1941 she was based at the Central Interpretation Unit (CIU) at RAF Medmenham, where she identified V1 flying bombs at Peenemünde, Germany. Her intelligence work was recognised by an MBE, awarded in 1945, and, a year later, the United States awarded her the Legion of Merit for her work with USAAF Intelligence.…