Fables

First edition.  [vi], 254ppp.  Green cloth-covered boards with lettering on spine.  8vo.  Cloth gently pushed at spine ends, a tad discoloured around edges.  Some spotting on endpapers, and previous owner’s label on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

A collection of moral fables by the well-known archaelogogist – the first woman to study archaelogy and anthropolgy at Cambridge – and wife of J B Preistley, Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996).