LIVRE DE CHILAM BALAM DE CHUMAYEL. 1955. TRANSLATED BY PERET

Paris: Denoel, 1955

21.5 x 16cm, 230pp. 12 b/w photo-documents. Pictorial wrappers. First edition of the Surrealist Peret’s exacting translation of the great Mayan sacred text. Unqualified evidence of his decades long researches toward the antecedents of contemporary Hispanic cultural symbol. A close to fine example. Scarce.