ANAHUACALLI: Museo Diego Rivera, multilingual includes English, long out of print (so our copy is obviously not new), in Mexico the last copy we saw was priced at $100, includes Nayarit ballgame village scene plus Colima ballplayers. We have only a single copy, $80. No. 6018
BERNAL, Ignacio and A. Seuffert, THE BALLPLAYERS OF DAINZU, Oaxaca warrior- players wearing gloves and helmets, 56 large format plates, 13 photographs, 32 p. (coffee table book size), hardbound by hand, $130. Quality printed in Graz, Austria. No. 6050
de BORHEGYI, S., THE PRE-COLUMBIAN BALLGAME,
edited by Lee Parsons. Many photographs of ballgame scenes, sculpture, yokes,
hachas, and palmas. 30 p, $40. No. 6054
CASTRO-LEAL, Marcia, EL JUEGO DE PELOTA, complete exhibit catalog,
in Sp. but it's the pictures you want, plentifully spread over 127 p. This
is the rarest ballgame art catalog in the world, as it went immediately
into out- of-print status. We bet this is one title your library is lacking.
$230 due to being unobtainable elsewhere (we have only one copy available).
Illustrates ballgame items not pictured in other books. No. 6068
HELLMUTH, N., PRE-COLUMBIAN BALLGAME, regional ballgame variants
are distinguished for the first time; previously unpublished vases show
that the Peten Maya did not normally use a yoke during the game; 74 p. Only
about 5 copies left, $40 each while they last. No. 6133
HELLMUTH, N., THE ESCUINTLA HOARDS, Teotihuacan art in Guatemala;
large format photographs, not published elsewhere; includes ballgame decapitation
ritual, 70 p. Only a few copies left, $30 while they last. No. 6132
ICHON, Alain and Marion P. HATCH, ARCHEOLOGIE DE SAUVETAGE DANS LA VALLEE
DU RIO CHIXOY. no. 4, LOS ENCUENTROS. 193 pages with plenty of
illustrations. These reports are as good (if not better) than the Carnegie
Institution of Washington monographs. $60. Includes patolli game board (fig.
101), ballcourt (fig. 34), pottery, temple and palace architecture, tombs,
and artifacts all pictured in drawings and/or photographs. No. 6147
(INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS) XLI CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE AMERICANISTAS,
Mexico 1974, Crammed with information (English, Spanish), $100 all
three volumes together. Vol. I, 600 p, Vol. II, 679 p, Vol. III, 808
p, covers OLMEC, Maya, Teotihuacan, Aztec, Bilbao (Cotzumalhuapa) art, iconography,
archaeology, Tikal, Monte Alban, Belize, articles by HELLMUTH, Hammond on
Belize, Merle Greene Robertson on Palenque, and scores of others. Kekchi
myths, ballgame goal sculptures, The following reports are all in this volume
of the International Congress of Americanists, Geneva. No. 6151
D. Heydon, "What is the Significance of the Mexica Pyramid"
Hasso Von Winning, Mexican Figurines Attached to Pallets and Cradles"
E. Pasztory, "The Gods of Teotihuacan"
Gordon Ekholm, "The Archaeological Significance of Mirrors in the New
World"
Mary King, "A Textile Technique from Oaxaca, Mexico"
Norman Hammond, "Maya Settlement Patterns"
Lee Parsons, "Iconographic Notes on a new Izapan Stela from Abaj Takalik,
Guatemala"
Sabloff and Rathje, "Changing pre-Columbian Commercial Patterns on
the Island of Cozumel, Mexico"
Arthur Miller, "The Mural Painting at Tancah and in Structure 5 at
Tulum: Implications of their Style and Iconography"
A. Digby, "Evidence in Mexican Glyphs and Sculpture for an unrecognized
Astronomical Instrument"
F. Hochleitner, "The Correlation between the Mayan and the Julian Calendar"
R. Fry, "The Archaeology of Southern Quintana Roo: Ceramics"
Peter Harrison, "The Lintels of Tzibanche, Quintana Roo"
(all of these articles together, $80,) bound together with another dozen
arti- cles (total, 509 pages crammed with illustrations). This is Vol. I
of the International Congress of Americanists. No. 6151
ITO, Nabuyuki & TORRES, Miguel et al., MAYA -SPECIAL EXHIBITION,
Crossroad of History and Race, a major Japanese catalog. Jade (lots,
and in COLOR), obsidian, flint, highland, lowland, mushroom stones,
Preclassic stone, plumbate, ballplayer figures & yokes, Tiquisate, highland
Maya textiles, $200 - -a necessary investment because of the coverage
within this extensive catalog (mostly loans from Guatemala, but a considerable
number of items nowhere else published). 200p. 126 illustrations of textiles
and ethnographic subjects plus 251 illustrations of ancient art (mostly
in color). This is one of the most comprehensive books yet issued in Japan,
in a quality that we expect for Japan. We can't read Japanese either,
but you don't buy this book to learn Japanese, rather to learn about pre-Columbian
art - from illustrations. These pictures are an informative reference source
for anyone doing iconography. No. 6152
LEYENAAR, Ted, Gerald van BUSSEL, and Gesine WEBER, FROM COAST TO COAST: PreColumbian Sculptures from Mesoamerica. exhibit catalog in Europe of private collections; thus most of these objects have never been pictured in any other publication. 423 large pages (coffee table book), with a whopping quality of 398 photographs in FULL COLOR, Includes ballgame hachas, two Tiquisate ballgame tripods from Guatemala, and a rare Rio Blanco bowl (Veracruz), some of which show ballgame-related rituels. Filled with pottery, stone, representing ALL pre-Columbian cultures, from Maya to Olmec, Colima, Chupicuaro, Michoacan, Tlatilco. Hardcover, $160. No. 6169
LEYENAAR, Ted, Gerald van BUSSEL and Paul van DONGEN (eds), THE MESOAMERICAN
BALLGAME. Outstanding contributions by Norman Hammond, Ted Leyenaar,
Nicholas Hellmuth, Lee Parsons, Merle Greene Robertson, and many others.
Unfortunately, a limited printing (only 500 copies!). Price is sure to rise
to $250 when copies run out. Now, $150, In stock ready for immediate shipment.
300 informative pages, 173 educational illustrations. No. 6170
LEYENAAR and Lee PARSONS, ULAMA, THE BALLGAME OF THE MAYAS AND AZTECS with text also by H.B. Nicholson. 227 informative pages with lots of illustrations (inc. color) of all Mesoamerican games. Outstanding coverage of yokes, hachas, palmas, polychrome Maya vases, a female Jaina ballplayer. This is the most recent book produced anywhere in the world on the ballgame. $150. No. 6168
PARSONS, Lee, BILBAO, GUATEMALA, Vol. II (Vol. I is not available,
is totally separate, and is not necessary to understand the material of
Vol. II). This volume (II) shows all the stone sculptures of the Pipil Cotzumalhuapa
civilization of piedmont Guatemala, plus a thorough description; includes
all the stelae which depict ballplayers, 274 p., $40. No. 6206
PARSONS, L., PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA: THE ART
& ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTH, CENTRAL AND MIDDLE AMERICA. Jaina
figurines, ballgame sculpture, incense burners, Preclassic, Aztec, West
Coast Mexico, 193 p. $25. No. 6207
RUBIO CIFUENTES, Rolando Roberto ESTRUCTURA J-107 SITIO ARQUEOLOGICO
EL BAUL SANTA LUCIA COTZUMALGUAPA, ESCUINTLA GUATEMALA, 173 p,
illus (especially rim profiles) including rubbings of two Tiquisate ballplayer
cylindrical tripods, out of print, but we have one, $130.
We have never seen this offered in any other book catalog - no wonder, there
were only about 50 copies printed. No. 6234
TALADOIRE, Eric, LES TERRAINS DE JEU DE BALLE, 815 p, the most complete
book ever written on ballcourts of Mexico (as well as of the Hohokam of
Arizona); illustrates hundreds of ballcourts as well as art which depicts
ancient athletes; Shows all the Aztec and Mixtec ballcourts of the codice,
OUT OF PRINT, but we have one copy left, $300. No. 6257
Union Academique Internationale, Corpus Antiquitatum Americanensium, INAH,
Mexico. Vol. IV YUGOS DE LA COLECCION DEL MUSEO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA,
English/Sp. text. Outstanding ballgame yokes in professional line renderings
by Andy Seuffert, text by Ignacio BERNAL, 51 p. text, 42 large format drawings.
portfolio (corners torn & cracked but pages themselves in pristine condition),
$220. No. 6300
URIARTE, Maria Teresa (ed.), EL JUEGO DE PELOTA EN MESOAMERICA, articles by Nicholas HELLMUTH, Merle Greene ROBERTSON, and many more archaeologists all together 19 reports on the various ballgames of Mesoamerica: El Tajin, Chichen Itza, Hohokam (Arizona), Copan, and many more. Includes data on the Olmec game found preserved in the swamp of Manati, Veracruz., 419 pages, 58 drawings, 10 B+W photos, a whopping 77 color photographs. Includes 16 ballgame photographs of Nicholas Hellmuth from the F.L.A.A.R. Photo Archives. $250 for overall the largest, fanciest, and most colorfully illustrated ballgame book ever produced. No. 6269
WILKERSON, S. Jeffrey, EL TAJIN, 79 pages,
filled with color photographs, maps, line drawings of stelae, ballcourt
panels. The most complete book available on El Tajin. Considering that El
Tajin is crucial for understanding the ballgame, is the home for yokes,
hachas, and palmas, and influenced the entire Maya area, this is an essential
book for Maya iconography. $30. No. 6280