AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE PACIFIC - THE THEORY BEHIND THE KON-TIKI EXPEDITION
by Heyerdahl, Thor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1952. Printed in Stockholm, Sweden. 821 pages. 7 1/2 in x 10 in. Frontispiece illustrated with black and white plate of a Stone Statue at Tiahuanaco, Bolivia. Illustrated in text with b/w and color plates and 11 maps, including some fold-out maps. Pages clean, good condition. Previous owner's name on ffep, otherwise endpapers clean. Cover coming loose at endpapers. Brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges very lightly worn. Boards lightly scratched. GOOD+. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027783
- Title
- AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE PACIFIC - THE THEORY BEHIND THE KON-TIKI EXPEDITION
- Author
- Heyerdahl, Thor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Kon Tiki, Expedition, Travel, Exploration, History
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J. Wyatt Books
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.