Temples in Yucatan: A Camera Chronicle of Chichen Itza

New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. SIGNED. 124pp. Small square quarto [24 cm] Green paper over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a gilt stamped design on the front cover. Patterned endpapers. Light wear to the spine ends. Previous owner's name and brief notation on verso of front free endpaper. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with a small loss from the bottom edge of the dust jacket, obscuring a bit of the author's name, along with a few smaller closed and open edge tears. Laura Gilpin's brilliant camera study of Chichen Itza, and a tribute to the Maya and to the group of scientists who have restored and reconstructed the beautiful temples. Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), born in Colorado, was a 1917 graduate of the Clarence H. White School of Photography. Her career of fifty years was varied and wide-ranging, and established her as one of the most outstanding photographers of our time.

Inscribed by Gilpin on the half title: "For ____ / with best wishes / Laura Gilpin. (Inventory #: 68551)