ASTURIAS, Miguel Angel.

Leyendas de Guatemala.

Madrid, Ediciones Oriente, 1930. 1930 8vo, pp. 207, with numerous illustrations of Mayan motifs in the text; paper lightly browned; uncut and unopened, in the striking original colour-illustrated wrappers by Puyol, slightly dust-soiled, bookplate inside front wrapper. First edition, rare: the first major work by the Guatemalan novelist. This study of early Mayan legends and folklore was much admired by Paul Valéry, who called it a collection of 'history-dream-poems'.
Palau 19186.

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• ordernr.: F297

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