babington smith constance editor (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: Good. 288 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Complete in two volumes. 382pp; 288pp. Both volumes illustrated with black and white plates. Uniformly bound in red publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vos. Cloth a little faded and worn, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Upper text block edges dust dulled. Previous owner's inscriptions inked neatly on front free endpapers. Pages a little creamy else neat, clean and tight. Both volues in worn, torn, chapped and chipped dust wrappers with minor loss at spine ends. Novelist Rose Macauley first met Hamilton Johnson in London in 1914 but they lost touch until, in 1950 Hamilton happened to read on of her novels and sent her a fan letter. She replied and the correspondence, and friendship, blossomed into a chronicle of Macauley's return to England and to the Church of England, only terminating upon the death of Father Johnson in 1958.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 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 terrific association quartet, comprising the three volumes of Macaulay's Letters and Smith's biography, all inscribed by the author's cousin, the WAAF photo intelligence officer, Constance Babington Smith. 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. Signed by Author(s).