Indian Art of Mexico and Central America. Color plates and line drawings by the author. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
First edition.
Octavo. xvi, 360, xvii pp. With 12 color plates and 64 black and white photograph plates. Original quarter black paper over natural cloth, spine printed in gilt and decoratively stamped in silver, front cover decorations stamped in gilt and silver, profusely illustrated in color and black and white. With original pictorial dust jacket. Book is fine, jacket is lightly rubbed but still near fine.
From jacket: "This beautiful book, the last written and illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias, and certainly his finest achievement, presents the plastic arts of the aboriginal inhabitants of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, etc: the Maya, Aztecs, "Olmecs", Toltecs, and many others, including some rich cultures only recently brought to light. Illustrated by the author with twelve pages in full color and one hundred and forty-nine line drawings, and with an album of sixty-four pages of photographs."
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4552
$
125