Quetzalcoatl

Description

Author: Saenz, Cesar A.

Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia E Historia (Mexico City)

Pub Date: 1962 (First edition)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket.    IN SPANISH.  Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown.  That bookplate, or one like it, has created a stain on the half-title page.  Commemorative edition, 2000 copies, “…on the occasion of the 35th Reunion of the International Congress of Americanists, August, 1962”  Some small stains to lower front and rear board edges.  Wear to upper front board at spine head.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes:  IN SPANISH.  Serie Historia VIII  “…essentially a re-work of his doctoral dissertation” ( https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article/44/4/641/159203/Quetzalcoatl ).  Quetzalcoatl is a Mexican deity whose name comes from Nahuatl and means “feathered serpent.”  Numerous illustrations, both drawings and photographs.  Bibliography.  From the library of the late author Ted R. Estrada (1917-2000), his bookplate.