Revised George Brainerd (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Unknown. Royal octavo, hardcover, VG in edgeworn, ragged dj. Map endpapers. Text is clean and unmarked. 494 pps. Illustrated with photos, drawings, maps, diagrams, and tables. Classic work for non-professionals lavishly illustrated, a readable classic of archaeological literature on Mayan civilization. Book.

Condition: VG+/VG+. 3rd ptg 3rd ed. 8vo. 507pp. Nice bright copy.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Cloth in dust jacket. Fourth edition. 708 pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 3rd Edition, 3rd Printing of 1963. 3rd Edition, 3rd Printing of 1963. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated beige linen boards/Fine. DJ/None. Map to endpapers. Frontispiece: The Young Corn God, Copan, Honduras. Classic well illustrated study on the rich pre-Columbian Maya civilization. First published 1946; this is the 3rd Revised Edition of 1956 with a concluding chapter by Betty Bell, editorial assistant to George Bainerd whose untimely death prevented him from seeing the work to its end. 12 chapters: I, The Country; II, The People; III, The Origin of the Maya Civilization; IV, The Classic State; VI, The Spanish Conquest of Yucatan; VII, The Spanish Conquest of Peten; VIII, Agriculture; IX, Government & Social Organization; X, Life of the Common People; XI, Religion & Deities; XII, Hieroglyphic Writing, Arithmetic & Astronomy; XIII, Architecture; XIV, Sculpture & Modeling; XV, Ceramics; XVI, Miscellaneous Arts & Crafts; and, XVII, An Appraisal of the Maya Civilization by Betty Bell, followed by the Appendix: Correlation of Maya & Christian Chronologies. Fine copy less dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Not Price Clipped. Third Edition. Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; previous owner's name on front end paper; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and maps. Book.