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Letters from Africa, 1914-1931
by Isak Dinesen, tr. Anne Born
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0226153096
- ISBN 13
- 9780226153094
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
University Of Chicago Press, 1981. Hardcover. Good/Good. 474 pages, with biographical chronology, illustrated with 24 double-sided plates - b&w photos, facsimiles of correspondence, map. Letters of Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), 1885-1962, to family and friends, first published in Danish in 1978. Translated by Anne Born, edited for the Rungstedlund Foundation by Frans Lasson with his "The Rain at Ngong: An Introduction to the Letters of Isak Dinesen". 8vo, tan cloth with copper gilt lettering on spine, black end papers, minimal shelf wear, corners sharp, faint foxing to top edge, in unclipped DJ with light soil and wear including small holes along rear flap fold. Names of former owners written on copyright page, marginalia (many small check marks, some notes) and some underscoring in light pencil on approximately one-third of the pages.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-193
- Title
- Letters from Africa, 1914-1931
- Author
- Isak Dinesen, tr. Anne Born
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0226153096
- ISBN 13
- 9780226153094
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- KAREN BLIXEN, LETTERS, FRANS LASSON, KENYA, RUNGSTEDLUND FOUNDATION, OUT OF AFRICA, DENYS FINCH HATTON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa; Autobiography; Biography;
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