Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific By Raft
by Heyerdahl, Thor
- Used
- Condition
- very good: shelf wear, mild toning, else clean, tight, square. BOMC blind stamp rear board bottom near spine./good: chipping along top edge, corner wear, some loss, NOT clipped, BOMC stated on front flap
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Rand McNally, 1950. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. very good: shelf wear, mild toning, else clean, tight, square. BOMC blind stamp rear board bottom near spine./good: chipping along top edge, corner wear, some loss, NOT clipped, BOMC stated on front flap. 8vo 304pp. + illustrations. from front flap: "...On a primitive raft made of forty-foot balsa logs and named Kon-Tiki in honor of a legendary sun king, Heyerdahl and five companions deliberately risked their lives to show that the ancient Peruvians could have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on similar craft." #00956.
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- Seller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 875
- Title
- Kon-Tiki
- Author
- Heyerdahl, Thor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: shelf wear, mild toning, else clean, tight, square. BOMC blind stamp rear board bottom near spine.
- Jacket Condition
- good: chipping along top edge, corner wear, some loss, NOT clipped, BOMC stated on front flap
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book of the Month Club
- Publisher
- Rand McNally
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- travel, adventure, exploration, science, nonfiction
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
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Glossary
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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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...