Out of Africa
by Dinesen, Isak
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus to Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1938. Nice copy of first printing. Unmarked, but for vintage bookplate on front pastedown pretty much hidden under front flap of jacket, tight and square. Quarter bound in black over an attractive rust (cinnamon) with gold illustrated gazelle? on front board. Clean well cared for copy. Faint, small amount of shadow from glue transfer to hinge of endpapers. Price intact jacket is a nice one with only very light wear at spine ends. Basis for acclaimed film that won won 5 Oscars including Best Picture and featuring Robert Redgford and Meryl Streep. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus to Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014970
- Title
- Out of Africa
- Author
- Dinesen, Isak
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus to Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; Books Into Film;
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About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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