Out Of Africa

New York: Random House, 1938. Hardcover. See description. 1st US Edition. Association copy - Hazel Gage - see provenance. DESCRIPTION: Black cloth spine with orange cloth boards Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Tarnishing to gilt titles. Tightly bound with toned intact endpapers and strong hinges. Prev owners book plate to front paste down and name to ffep - see provenance. Toned unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 389. Size: 8vo 21cm by 14cm. ADDITIONAL ITEMS: Section of typed letter mentioning Pam (m. John Frederick Ward of Kabazi, son of Hamilton Frederick Ward, Hazel (Gage) Pamela Ward (SWINTON-HOME) and Debo (Deborah Pamela Gage - Hazel Gages daughter) with reference to the film Out of Africa and the Muthaiga Club. PROVENANCE: Hazel Gage See additional items for further references to other contemporaries. Hazel Gage (1921-2012) nee SWINTON-HOME married Major Quentin Henry Moreton Gage. Daughter of George Archibald SWINTON-HOME DSO, OBE (Lieut. Col. ) who settled in Kenya in 1912. Sister Pamela SWINTON-HOME(m. John Frederick Ward of Kabazi, son of Hamilton Frederick Ward - see below). John Frederick Wards father Frederick Hamilton Ward established The Muthaiga Club Club in Nairobi with Archie Morrison where Karen Blixen and Denys Finch-Hatton (The two main characters in the film Out Of Africa) were first introduced in real life. WARD, Hamilton Frederick (1880-1961) Freddie (Major) Son of Robert Frederick Ward (Lieutenant in the Royal Navy). Educated at Eton and Oxford he joined the Army and served in the Boer War. Following the war he organised a shooting party to travel to East Africa in 1904 and 1905, and fell in love with the country. He managed to get himself seconded to the Kings African Rifles in April 1906, as a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, from which he resigned in 1908. Ward resigned from the army and joined Captain Jack Riddell and Marquis Ralph Hornyold in investing in the Boma Trading Company. Established in Nairobi as a land and business agent he met Archie Morrison in 1912, a rich financier. Morrison committed himself to invest but insisted that a proper club be built was built in Nairobi. Thus the Sandbach Baker dairy farm at Muthaiga was bought in 1912, and Muthaiga Club was built with a cheque made out to Freddy Ward for �60,000. BOOK RESUME: Association copy of the famous novel and the relationship between Baroness Karen Blixen and Denys Finch-Hatton.