Edward Thompson Peter Janson Smith (1 results)
Published by Oxford University Press,, London,, 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp ix, 100. Original publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in black. A few small faint marks to covers, extremities lightly rubbed in places. VG. With neat inscription on ffep, 'P. Janson-Smith/Dec. 44'. Peter Janson-Smith (1922-2016) became Ian Flem…ing's literary agent and would have been 22 in 1944. His English degree at St Edmund Hall, Oxford was compressed into just four terms, with two afternoons a week given over to gunnery practice. He spent the Blitz in charge of an anti-aircraft battery on Hackney Marshes. Very good.