[Rarebooks] FS: End of the World Special: THE MAYAN BOOK OF THE PEOPLE: POPOL VUH

[Charles Agvent]

$45 today, not available tomorrow

[MAYAN RELIGION]. THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE: POPOL VUH. THE NATIONAL BOOK 
OF THE ANCIENT QUICHE MAYA. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. Large 
octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in coarse pale green linen with the title 
stamped in a vivid Mayan-green leaf. The National Book of the Mayas in 
an English version made by Delia Goetz and Sylvanus Griswold Morley from 
the translation into Spanish by Adrian Recinos. With a Pronouncing 
Dictionary compiled by Lucille Kaufman Weil. Illustrated with drawings 
and paintings in color by Everett Gee Jackson. Printed by Saul and 
Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles. Copy #527 of 1500 
SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Mild darkening to the 
spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a small nick. (#010246)    
     $60.00


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