Popol Vuh; The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya by Goetz, Delia (With Sylvanus G. Morley.)

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press [0-8061-0205-5] 1972. (Hardcover) 267pp. Very good in very good plus dust jacket. Top edge stained turquoise, map, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn, there is a previous owner's stamp on the fore-edge and front free endpaper, and minor underlining and notation in ink in the text. "This is the first complete version in English of the 'Book of the People' of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times and a branch of the ancient Maya, whose remarkable civilization in pre-Columbian America is in many ways comparable to the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean". Time Period 16th Century. Translated by Adrian Recinos. (Indians of Central America, Indians of Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Mythology, Oral Tradition).