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Hard cover, 4to in green cloth, witlh titles to spine blocked in darker green, in the original slipcase. Printed at The Plantin Press, San Francisco. 251pp. [253pp.] CONDITION: Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus slipcase. Slight darkening to spine with three small spots of foxing to same. Otherwise clean, unwritten in and in a firm binding. Slipcase has two inconsequential small dings.** Tales of the ancient Mesoamerican Quiché Indian tribe, a branch of the Maya Empire once encompassing present day Yucatán, Mexico, the present Republic of Guatemala and Western Honduras. The work chronicles verbal traditions of the Quiché from antiquity, which were gathered into written form in the sixteenth century by Chichicastenango and thereafter into Spanish by Spanish priest Father Ximénez. Creator myths, and mythology. Called by the translator " the most distinguished example of native American literature that has survived the passing centuries." (p. 185). Some of the stories include: The coming of Spanish conquistadors, such as Pedro de Alvarado, renamed Donadiú, "The God of the Sun" and "The Death of Hunahpú and Xbalanqué." (AMJ)
Ref: LATAM 9749
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