Sourced from the dust cover flap (image provided with listing):

             Human Sacrifice, the very first modern study of the subject to embrace all its aspects, history, and geography, makes utterly absorbing reading. In Human Sacrifice, Nigel Davis traces the course of ritual killing from prehistory right up to the present day.

Condition note:

           This hardcover with dust cover is a first printing. It has light wear and no marks or notes to the text. It has minor blemish of a light crease to the spine of the dust cover.