False Tongues and Sunday Bread (Copeland Marks)

M. Evans and Co, New York, 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. 

From the publisher: "The Maya - the Indians who inhabited parts of Mexico and Central America in pre-hispanic times - left the modern world a legacy of remarkable cookig that is still practiced in cliffside huts and middle-class haciendas. Copeland Marks, co-author of the highly acclaimed The Indonesian Kitchen, has traveled widely throughout Guatemala and other countries that bear the Mayan heritage, in order to introduce us to the everyday pleasures of this little known cuisine. 

Dust jacket shows minor shelf wear at top and bottom of spine but otherwise in very good condition. Fore edge has some foxing and bottom edge is stained. Interior pages bright and clear. Pen inscription from previous owner in front.