OUT OF AFRICA
by Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 389 pages; G+/G; Brown and green pictorial spine with black text; Dustjacket protected by mylar covering, Open tear along head edge of spine, chipping along spine edges, small open tear to front joint, chipping at corners, sunning to spine; Minor wear along edges; Textblock has age toning to pages, bookplate on front pastedown, marking in pen and pencil on pastedowns, creasing along front interior hinge; RWO. 1360399. Special Collections.
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
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1360399
- Title
- OUT OF AFRICA
- Author
- Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...