RIVER OF RUINS

New York:Henry Holt and Company. (1941), 1st edition. (xi)=334pp+photographs at end.  llustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with light wear to edges and spine ends.  Internally, mapped endpages age-toned but clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. There is a bookplate to the 2nd free end-page, and light age-toning to pages adjacent to frontispiece, otherwise clean. The binding is tight and hinges intact.  The dust jacket is still in one piece and not price clipped, but is soiuled and shelfworn along edges and folds, with small chips and tears.  *"One of the most accomplished younger Amercan writers relates, in the pages of this book, a travel narrative of a sort that W. H. Hudson would have approved. Louis Halle and his friend Tom Gladwin went to the Peten, a region which lies partly in Guatemala and partly in Yucatan, to look at the great ruins of the Maya civilization. There, in the tangled silences of the jungle, they saw the stones of what were probably the greatest cities of their day in all the world."...dj