The Sun, He Dies: a Novel about the End of the Aztec World.

Highwater, Jamake

ISBN 10: 0690016956 / ISBN 13: 9780690016956

Published by Lippincott & Crowell, Publishers, 1980

About this Item

Very Good ; Very Good Jacket. 1980 Lippincott & Crowell, Publishers. Second printing. SIGNED by author on half-title page with personalized inscription. Hardcover has red cloth-textured paper-covered boards with black cloth-covered spine and gold spine lettering. Blind-stamped pictograph on front cover is repeated in book as illustration at head of each chapter. Black and white illustrations and maps. Binding tight. Tail of spine lightly bumped. Small spattered stains on fore edge of pages near bottom. Pages clean and unmarked. 319 pages. Glossy illustrated dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear. Includes pamphlet about author, with bibliography. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sun, He Dies: a Novel about the End of the Aztec World.
• Publisher: Lippincott & Crowell, Publishers
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0690016956
• ISBN 13: 9780690016956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: signed by author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Nanautzin, chief orator of Montezuma, describes Mexico before its conquest by Cortes and evokes the character of Montezuma himself, torn between his dignity as an Aztec leader and his belief in the return of the white god Quetzlcoatl