- Seller Inventory #: 053001-c005
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: No Dust Jacket
- Illustrator: Color Photos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Rand McNally
- Place: Chicago
- Date published: 1958
- Keywords: Anthropology Easter Island Heyderdahl
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1958. Very good/no dj. mild edgewear and slight yellowing to the pages of this classic of the field.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Color Photos. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
