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Whicher, Ian (Editor)/ Carpenter, David (Editor)Biblio.com

Yoga: The Indian Tradition

MACAULAY, Rose; SMITH, Constance Babington (editor & author); [Peter CARPENTER]Biblio.com

Letters to a Friend; Last Letters to a Friend; Letters to a Sister; Rose Macaulay four volumes

19612750FIRST 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. Collins hardcover

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