Coe Douglas (53 results)

Condition: acceptable. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may be missing bundled media.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 363-393 pages with figures and cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 62 Number 3 complete issue. From the library of professor Robert V Kemper. First edition. The excavations at La Victoria were carried out under the auspices of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala. Work was made possible by a generous grant from the Penrose Fund of the American Philosophical Society. I would like to express my gratitude to Emilio Estrada of the Museo Arqueológico Victor Emilio Estrada and to Clifford Evans and Betty J. Meggers of the United States National Museum, who supplied much valuable information and all of the photographs of Ecuadorian material illustrated in this paper. Junius B. Bird of the American Museum of Natural History helped in the analysis of some of the special decorative techniques described in this paper. Robert V. Kemper, born in San Diego, California, on November 21, 1945, resided in Dallas, Texas, where he was Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1971 from the University of California at Berkeley and spent the academic year 1971-1972 there as a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mexican American Studies before joining the SMU faculty. At SMU, he served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology, President of the Faculty Senate, and member of the University Board of Trustees. His research interests included migration and urbanization, history of anthropology, community development, tourism, Mexico, and the United States. His numerous publications include Anthropologists in Cities (1974), Migration and Adaptation: Tzintzuntzan Peasants in Mexico City (1977), Migration Across Frontiers: Mexico and the United States (1979), Chronicling Cultures: Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology (2002), and Urban Life (5th ed., 2010). He has served as President of the Society for Latin American Anthropology and the Society for Urban Anthropology, as well as editor of Human Organization, editor for Social-Cultural Anthropology of the American Anthropologist, and associate editor for Urban Anthropology. Condition: Kemper's stamp to front wrapper. Edge wear with gently bumped corners, spine sunned else very good.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 304 clean, unmarked pages/index; 2nd Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good, like new.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 31 pages with three fold out diagrams. bibliography and figures including frontispiece. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology number 2. First edition. A small relief panel in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection is of limestone and measures 65 cm by 63.5 cm. The sculpture has been sawn vertically in two pieces, and the smaller, righthand piece has a diagonal break near the upper corner. The panel has been cut down from its original size by sawing on all four sides. There is red color on much of the surface. The stone is so eroded that it is difficult to interpret many of the details. This monograph gives a complete discussion of the Relief Panels. Condition: Near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 597-611 pages with figures and bibliography. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Volume 59 Number 4. complete issue. First edition. Michael Douglas Coe was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher, and author. He is known for his research on pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly the Maya, and was among the foremost Mayanists of the late twentieth century. Condition: Edge wear with gently bumped corners, spine sunned else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presumed first ed.; 175 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; maps and drawings by Winfield Scott Hoskins; binding firm;in absence of d.j. the tan boards with clear brown lettering have some rubbing and scuffing, esp. at crown and foot of spine, and bumped corners.

Magazine. 164p. includes covers, erotic stories, explicit drawings, very good digest-size magazine in pictorial wraps. A spin-off of FirstHand magazine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Stated fifth printing, very good in a good only dust jacket. The blue cloth boards are a little spotted, and there is a gift inscription on the front endpaper. The jacket has loss primarily at the top of the front panel (affecting the first word in the title), but other chips and tears as well. Includes map endpapers and illustrations by Kreigh Collins, Marconi Awards and Honors, Bibliography, and an Index; 272 pages. Biography of the radio pioneer. 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Winfield Scott Hoskins (illustrator). Hardcover with a single significant blemish: the front and back exterior panels are mottled with pale spots, as if they encountered water droplets, but there is no indication of moisture elsewhere, and the mottled surfaces are smooth to the touch. The dust jacket is fair with a long tear along the back flap, a few other 1-2cm tears, yet is 99% intact and presentable in a new, clear, removeable cover. 175 pages, with illustrations. [1 lb]. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Hoskins, Winfield Scott (illustrator). First. First edition, very good cloth hardcover (no dust jacket) shows staining and soil to covers, some soil at page edges, bumping to corners and some other light trace wear. 175 pages illustrated. Solid copy of this work that looks at the construction of the noted Alaska Highway.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. This book has an inscription on the front endpage in pen, a pencil mark on the back end page, slight darkening of the pages, binding is slightly cocked; otherwise this book is in very good condition, the binding is solid and the cover is nice and clean. The dust jacket has darkening around the edge, light creasing across the spine, wear around the edges (including little chips and tears) and at the corners, has been price clipped, pencil marks on the back the is half erased, some light smudging on the back; otherwise it is in good condition, the colors are nice and bright and it is now in a protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. > First edition > DJ 192 pages in tan cloth with dust jacket. First edition. Illustrations throughout by Winfield Scott Hoskins. Former owner's name and address on front free endpaper. Slight tilt to spine. DJ is rubbed at the edges and is missing tiny pieces at the spine ends. No underlining or notations. No foxing. Binding is tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ROAD TO ALASKA BY DOUGLAS COE W/ 50 PICTURES BY W. SCOTT HOSKINS 1943 1ST. Staying with Alaska (The Last Frontier as they call it and somewhere I visit regularly because two of my sons live there) I am pleased to offer: Road to Alaska- The Story of the Alaska Highway with text by Douglas Coe and pictures by Winfield Scott Hoskins. This small hard cover book (5 ¾ x 8 ½ inches, 176 pages) was published by Julian Messner Inc of New York dated 1943, with no other mention of edition. The book is bound in burnt orange boards with black titles on cover and spine. It is very well illustrated with 50 pictures throughout the text by the Artist and 6 maps related to the building of the road. The endpapers are also nicely decorated. Condition: This book is in very good condition. The hard covers have some marking across the front cover which I imagined were part of a missing decoration but now believe are stains. The hard covers are lightly bumped and the spine a bit darkened. Inside a former owner has left his neat bookplate on the front endpaper but that is the only mark I found in the book. The interior pages and pictures are clean and bright throughout without toning or foxing. Both hinges are intact, and the binding is tight and sound. This book is not ex-library or a remainder.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Winfield Scott Hoskins (illustrator). First Edition. Julian Messner, 1943, First Edition, 8vo., 175 pages, illustrations, map endpapers. Jacket has edgewear at spine top, and partially price clipped, else book very good and jacket in good+ condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Condition: Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Winfield Scott Hoskins (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition book in near fine condition dustjacket. [1501].

Vintage black-and-white still photograph of Martin Sheen from the 1980 film. A modern aircraft carrier is sent back in time to Hawaii, 1941, just hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor. One of the most inventive science fiction films of the 1980s, today a minor classic in the Psychotronic world. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 5th printing. Bookplate. Chipping to spine ends of jacket and to ends of flap folds.

Wrappers. Condition: Fine Condition. 158 pages with 150 illustrations 10 in color. Foreword by Thomas T. Solley, Director. Preface by Patricia Darish, Acting Curator.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 224 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. ; LC: TR145; Dewey: 770/.28 ; ISBN: 0528810790; 9780528810794 LCCN: 78-50818 ; OCLC: 4202571 ; Contains professional advice and information for the creative photographer on such subjects as visualizing the picture, camera use, color sense, photographic themes and techniques, and a guide to choosing equipment ; grey cloth in color dustjacket ; sunning on edges ; Partial contents: The magic frame -- The world of the camera -- Thinking in color -- The great themes -- Home processing -- Equipment guide. ; FINE/FINE. Book.

First edition. 8vo. 175 pp. Pictures by Winfield Scott Hoskins. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (100243).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Français, broché, bon état, quelques taches sur le couvercle, 134 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. private library liquidation 1943 no dj Beige cover/black lettering Winfield Scott Hoskins illustrator.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 314 p. ; (part col.) 25 cm. ; ISSN: 0459-6137 ; LCCN: 63-24447 ; OCLC: 1783015 ; Serial Publication : Periodical ; stiff paper wrappers with color illustration ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due pocket ; Contents: The social system of the Green Jay i n Columbia [Colombia] / Humberto Alvarez -- Sunbathing in Grebes / Robert W Storer, W Roy Siegfried, and John Kinahan -- Biology of Harris' Hawk in Southern Arizona / William J Mader -- Factors influencing female choice in the Lek mating system of the Ruff / Julia M Shepard -- Breeding biology of Frigatebirds : a comparative review / J Bryan Nelson -- Territorial defense of people by Laughing Gulls / Peter R Jutro -- The development of North American Herons II / William McVaugh, Jr -- Social b ehavior of the Boat-Billed Heron / Douglas W Mock -- Courtship behavior of the Greater Roadrunner / Martha Whitson -- Hand-rearing Hawks and Owls : some comparisons / Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom -- Complex song repertoire of Long-Billed Marsh Wrens / Jared Verner -- The authors and artists briefly noted -- Staff, administration board, research collaborators, field-collaborators, and Arthur A Allen Medalists -- Members of the Laboratory of Ornithology ; illustrators, George Mikisch Sutton , Don R Eckleberry, Albert E Gilbert, William McVaugh Jr, Diane Pierce, Robert Gillmor, Ted Lewin, Michael J Hopiak, John A Ruthven, James E Coe, peter Goll, John Busby, Lawrence B McQueen, William Zimmerman, Tony Angell ; VG. Book.