Books published by publisher UK: Ernest Benn,

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. First UK edition. 32x29cm. A picture book with no text, this is a visual story following the day of a family of pigs. Wonderful full page colour and crosshatch illustration in a similar style to that of Sendak. Some pages are cut and shaped to create a 3D effect, and makes the book incredibly interactive and fun for child and adult alike. The contents of the book are clean and free from inscription, but there is a 'Young Critics Prize, Bologna International Book Fair' sticker to the front endpaper and a light tea stain to the back endpaper. The matte pictorial boards are a little bowed and quite grubby, with rubbing to corners and edges but this does not detract from the delightful pastel coloured illustration; a charming book inside and out.

The Wombles live in a beautifully snug, well-ordered and cosy burrow underneath Wimbledon Common - the perfect base from which to sort and recycle all the rubbish that unthinking humans constantly drop. But the Wombles' peaceful and harmonious existence is suddenly under threat. The heavy lorries that thunder along the roads near the Common make the burrow shake and tremble so much that it is no longer safe for the Wombles to live there. With a heavy heart, Great Uncle Bulgaria decides that the Wombles will have to move from the burrow that they have lived in for many, many years. And it is up to young Bungo and Orinoco to bravely sally forth and try to locate a new home for the Wombles...

Dame Kathleen begins by giving the historical background to the momentous exceptions which she directed during 1961- 1967: the founding of the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1865 and then often horrifying difficulties met by the earlier explorers, notably Charles Warren and F.J. Bliss, in the teeth apathy and obstruction. Their explorations by shafts and tunnels made notable discoveries about the topography of Jerusalem but could not provide dating evidence. Subsequent chapters describe the layout of Biblical Jerusalem and the problems that the excavations attempted to solve: the boundaries of David's City, for instance, and the authenticity of the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Key topics such as the Spring Gihon, the Pool of Siloam, and the rebuilding of the city walls are given special attention. The organization, methods, and personnel of the expedition which carried out seven seasons are illuminatingly detailed, and the results of subsequent digs are also included. The main section is devoted to a chronological description of the archaeological results of the expedition. Some light was thrown on Jerusalem of the second and third millennia. The main discoveries, however, were made about Jerusalem from the time of David, through Solomonic and Herodian magnificence, down to the New Testament.