[Rarebooks] FS: Spinden, MAYA ART, Publisher's copy with Unpublished Typescript

[Michael John Thompson]

SPINDEN, Herbert Joseph.

MAYA ART AND CIVILIZATION. Revised and Enlarged with Added 
Illustrations. Part I: A Study of Maya Art. Part II: The Nuclear 
Civilization of the Maya and Related Cultures.

Indian Hills, Colorado: The Falcon's Wing Press. 1957.

First printing of this new edition, expanded and enlarged from the 
Peabody Museum edition of 1913. The Publisher's file copy, with a 6 
page unpublished typescript by Spinden laid in. Large octavo, 
original cloth and board. 432 pp., colour frontispiece, indexes, 
plates, text illustrations, 2 folding charts.

 From the library of Charles A. Muses, then publisher of the Falcon's 
Wing Press. A note on the title page in Muses' hand states 'Designed, 
edited and cuts & extra plates & frontispiece selected by C.A. Muses, 
then editor-in-chief, Falcon's Wing.' Slight marginalia and notes on 
rear endpaper, plus 12 leaves of cryptic notes clipped together with 
a tag 'For Maya Book', all in Muses' hand. There are also further 
notes, clippings, catalogues, a sectioned dust wrapper, a letter from 
Daniel D. Streeter, editor of the Explorer's Journal, to Muses, dated 
1959 and referring to a review of the book in his Journal, extra 
illustrations, etc., all loosely laid in. Accompanying the book is a 
6-page typescript by Spinden titled MAGIC AND ASTRONOMY, with a note 
in Muses' hand on the first leaf stating "Unpublished. Rec'd from Dr. 
Spinden 1950".

A very good copy in a slightly rubbed dust wrapper with light wear at 
edges and one small tape repair. A unique copy of an important work.

$225.00


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