[PENDLEBURY, John; Hammond, Nicholas; Dunbabin, T. J.; Roberts, S. C.]. John Pendlebury In Crete: Comprising his 'Travelling Hints' and his 'First Trip to Eastern Crete' (1928) together with appreciations by Nicholas Hammond and T. J. Dunbabin and a prefatory note by S.C. Roberts. Printed for private circulation at the University Press Cambridge: 1948.
FIRST EDITION. Inscribed by Hilda Pendlebury, cloth-bound, hardcover, duodecimo (19.5cm x 13cmx 1cm), pp. xi, 68. English text. Bound in publisher's original quarter cloth, portrait frontispiece, illustrated plate, printed footnotes. Nicely inscribed by Hilda Pendlebury on the front endpaper. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, minor marks to covers, interior very well-preserved. Scarce thus.
Notes: First edition, one of only 250 copies printed, inscribed by the author's wife Hilda. The writings by the famously adventurous British archaeologist John Pendlebury, printed for private circulation after his death by execution during the Second World War while working for British Intelligence on Crete.
