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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Jackson, Everett Gee (illustrator). Small 4to hardcover with light green cloth boards and dark green titling on the spine, deckled edges, and custom paintings on the end papers rendered from statues, ceramics, temples, and other various works from Mayan culture. Comes with a matching dark green slipcase with silver titling on the spine. The Popol Vuh contains the creation story of the Quiche (K'iche') Maya, originally oral stories that were transcribed by a Spanish-Dominican friar Francisco Ximenez during the 18th century. The name Popol Vuh translates to "Book of Community" or "Book of Counsel". The condition of the book is Very Good (binding tight; little to no shelf wear; little to no interior damage; previous owner ex-libris stickers on half title page and verso paste down). The condition of the slip case is Very Good (very light shelf wear along the bottom edge; light shelf wear to the top edge). 251pgs.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Everett Gee Jackson (illustrator). Limited Edition No. 279 of 1500. 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). Signed by Illustrator on limitation page. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. 8vo. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, one of 1,500 copies. SIGNED by the illustrator on limitation page. Red painted top edge. Staining across diagonal axis of front covers. Mild bumping to fore corners, joint ends, and spine ends of covers. A few faint stains to spine of covers. Mild uneven toning to f.f.e.p. Faint glue ghosting to margins of r.p.d. Housed in faintly rubbed, slightly scratched slipcase. Scraping and soem bumping to corners of slipcase. Cracking along top edges of slipcase, resulting in near detachment. VG in VG slipcase. Illustrator.

Hard Cover. No. 246 of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator. LIGHTLY DARKENED SPINE, OTHERWISE FINE IN FINE SLIPCASE. BOOKPLATE. Translated from the Spanish by Adrian Recinos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED by the illustrator. 251pp. Quarto [28 cm] Pale green cloth over boards. Spine a bit age-toned (title still bold). In the sliocase with the underlying boards exposed occasionally along the edges, and a moisture stain, measuring 5 1/2" long by 3/4" tall. Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club laid in. With illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson. Special edition printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club.

Hard Cover. Limited Edition in blue-stamped full gray cloth printed by the Plantin Press in Los Angeles (Saul & Lillian Marks), No. 1497 of 1500 numbered copies signed by illustrator, Gee Jackson, boards sharp binding tight pages bright, in lightly rubbed slipcase which shows minor wear to tips and is splitting at top edge but is whole & solid, a bright tight unread unmarked copy with slight darkening to spine; 8vo; (xlviii) 251pp illus + colophon. Signed by Illustrator.