MITCHELL-HEDGES, F.A. Land of Wonder and Fear. London: Duckworth. [1931].
8vo. Original cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. xviii. [2], 265, numerous plates after photographs, apart from marginal flaws and a few tears to the extremely rare wrappers and a few minor spots initially only, a very good copy of an uncommon title.
Uncommon first edition, even more so in the wrappers. The adventurer and travel writer Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges (1882-1959) recounts several Central American research journeys with the aim to discover remnants of the Mayan and lost pre-Columbian civilizations.
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