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THor Heyerdahl – Aku-Aku – First Edition – SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by Heyerdahl as well as by the publisher Philip Unwin
£875.00
A first edition, first printing published by George Allen and Unwin in 1958. Signed by the Author on the free front endpaper, ‘To Frances Widdows/from/Thor Heyerdahl/London, 2.4.1958’. Beneath, the publisher Philip Unwin, ‘and from Philip Unwin/with thanks (…) for many months before’. A very good book with a little fading to the spine. The dust wrapper is very good with a little wear to the extremities and a few short tears which has been internally repaired. Scarce signed. The book explores Heyerdahl’s Norwegian Archarological Expedition to Easter Island.
Philip Unwin, nephew of publisher Sir Stanley Unwin, was working for the London publishing house George Allen & Unwin. While on holiday in Norway in 1948, he visited a Norwegian publisher, during which he discovered the manuscript of Heyerdahl’s raft-voyage book. As a result, Allen & Unwin were offered first refusal of the English-language rights to Heyerdahl’s breakout best-seller, ‘The Kon‑Tiki Expedition’.
This serendipitous encounter helped bring Heyerdahl’s story to the anglophone public.
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A first edition, first printing published by George Allen and Unwin in 1958. Signed by the Author on the free front endpaper, ‘To Frances Widdows/from/Thor Heyerdahl/London, 2.4.1958’. Beneath, the publisher Philip Unwin, ‘and from Philip Unwin/with thanks (…) for many months before’. A very good book with a little fading to the spine. The dust wrapper is very good with a little wear to the extremities and a few short tears which has been internally repaired. Scarce signed. The book explores Heyerdahl’s Norwegian Archarological Expedition to Easter Island.
Philip Unwin, nephew of publisher Sir Stanley Unwin, was working for the London publishing house George Allen & Unwin. While on holiday in Norway in 1948, he visited a Norwegian publisher, during which he discovered the manuscript of Heyerdahl’s raft-voyage book. As a result, Allen & Unwin were offered first refusal of the English-language rights to Heyerdahl’s breakout best-seller, ‘The Kon‑Tiki Expedition’.
This serendipitous encounter helped bring Heyerdahl’s story to the anglophone public.
