Jones, Julie (editor) — Jade in Ancient Costa Rica

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. Paperback. Green & color illus. wraps, 127 pp. many color illus. "An exhibition that illustrates a particular moment in Precolumbian America when a group of works of art takes on a special and traditional singularity. The jades presented here, made over the course of about a thousand years in an area that today is chiefly northern and central Costa Rica, are precious, intimate objects, lustrous in surface, intricate in image, and totally personal in intent." Lavishly illustrated, with essays by Juan Vicente Guerrero M. Mark Miller Graham, Michael J. Snarskis, and Zulay Soto Mendez. NOTE: This is one of the original paperbacks from the Metropolitan's exhibition; it is NOT a print-on-demand publication or an ebook. VG (Few marks and labels from ex-museum library owner; otherwise pristine.) .