Douglas Coe (48 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.

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.

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.

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. 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. 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.

Condition: Very good.

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.

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.

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.

broché. 187x120mm, 134pages, Bel exemplaire. En cas de problème de commande, veuillez nous contacter via notre page d'accueil / If there is a problem with the order, please contact us via our homepage.

hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Quarto. 157pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over with blind stamped publisher's logo and gilt lettering on cover and spine. Light brown endpapers. General framework for each geographic region with renowned authorities contributing to describe the examples into their respective cultural context. Profusely illustrated with five color and numerous b/w photographs, drawings and maps. Slight yellowing in margins of book block not affecting text or images. DJ, binding and interior in overall very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 304 pages with tables, figures, plates, glossary, bibliography, appendices and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original wrappers. Inscribed by by Michael Coe First paperback edition. Michael Coe's book tells the story of the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya, builders of grand and monumental city-states in the forest lands of central America during the period about 250 BC to 800 AD. Mayan is the latest great decipherment, to be set alongside the two great classics, Champollion's reading of Egyptian hieroglyphics in 1822, and Ventris & Chadwick's discovery in 1952 that the Linear B tablets of Minoan Crete were in an archaic Greek. And it will also, be the last great decipherment. Other ancient scripts are undeciphered, or only partly deciphered; but they promise few, short, or less than thrilling texts. The Linear B tablets are clerical records of commodities logged into Minoan store-houses, and the undeciphered and preceding Linear A promises more of the same. Mayan is grander stuff, monumental inscriptions of strangely-titled kings and princes, of the complexities of their lineage and descent, and of the exact chronology of their lives and reigns. The story of Mayan decipherment is longer, odder and more compelling than most. It is told here with great vigor by Professor Michael Coe, who was himself involved; he offers an insider's story with strong views of the personalities, competence and abilities of some colleagues. The texts are carved on stelae, on objects of jade and shell, and on panels set into ceremonial buildings. Many of these have been, in modern times, looted and sold on the art market, often sawn up into fragments. Other texts are painted on walls and on pottery, and on the pages of folding books made of fig bark. They do not immediately look like writing; they are miniature and not-so miniature pictures, called hieroglyphs by analogy with ancient Egyptian, also a form of picture-writing. Many decipherments depend on some kind of bilingual text that sets the unknown script alongside the same words in a known language. For Mayan this had to be patched together from the very few documents ¿ 'codices' ¿ that survived the holocaust of Maya learning after the Spanish conquest, and from fragmentary transcriptions in some early Spanish sources of the immediate contact period. The most important is a transliterated Maya alphabet by Diego de Landa, the man most notorious for the auto-da-fes that burnt the hieroglyphic books. Elements had been in place for years, and so had some wrong expectations. Quite suddenly, some pieces of the jigsaw fell into position, some new approaches were tried, and as one reading made possible another, the decipherment became a rush. Key contributions were made by a group of Russian researchers in Leningrad (as St Petersburg was then called); unable in those pre-glasnost days to travel abroad, they had never seen the places and inscriptions their working careers were devoted to. One of the Americans was a teenager, David Stuart, who got involved by being taken to Maya sites by his father, who worked for National Geographic. Condition Inscribed on half title else a fine copy. Inscribed by Author(s).