Out of Africa
by Dinesen, Isak
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Slight spine lean; minor wear, gently bumped to corners of front board; slight offsetting to endleaves; jacket lightly toned, ch
- Seller
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About This Item
Slight spine lean; minor wear, gently bumped to corners of front board; slight offsetting to endleaves; jacket lightly toned, chipped, and torn. Very good. CDK-425. Isak Dinesen. Out of Africa. New York: Random House, 1938. First American edition.
Octavo. 389pp. Publisher's black quarter cloth over orange pictorial cloth boards, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $2.75.
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Octavo. 389pp. Publisher's black quarter cloth over orange pictorial cloth boards, stamped in gilt to spine and front cover, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $2.75.
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Synopsis
Out of Africa is a memoir by Isak Dinesen, a nom de plume used by the Danish author Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen’s life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It is also a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire.
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- Bookseller
- InkQ Rare Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 425
- Title
- Out of Africa
- Author
- Dinesen, Isak
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight spine lean; minor wear, gently bumped to corners of front board; slight offsetting to endleaves; jacket lightly toned, ch
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- Fiction, Novels, Movies
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