[Rarebooks] FS: Alice Le Plongeon's "Queen Moo's Talisman..." NY: 1902 w/3 letters & postcard from her

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Le Plongeon, Alice Dixon. QUEEN MOO'S TALISMAN. THE FALL OF THE MAYAN EMPIRE. New York: Peter Eckler. (1902). 82,(4)pp. Plus 12 plates (including the frontispiece and 5 of printed music). Orig. grey cloth, gilt. Spine and covers somewhat soiled. A few preliminary leaves (not the title) with very minor chips at fore-edge. Withe the prospectus for the book tipped in at back. With 3 autograph letters and 1 postcard from Alice Le Plongeon, all circa 1908, to correspondent John O. Viking of Michigan. Two of the letters are tipped in and the others are laid in. Also with a typed letter from the Theosophical Publishing Co. of New York announcing the death of the author in 1910. Note: in 1912 John O. Viking wrote an article in the "American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal" on the life of Alice Le Plongeon.     $300.00 (trade discount allowed)
Alice Le Plongeon was the first European (she was English) woman to live and work in the Yucatan. She wrote HERE AND THERE IN YUCATAN in 1886. QUEEN MOO'S TALISMAN is called her "epic poem" and is a work of great interest to those involved with Mayan research.

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