Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
First edition. Missing dust jacket. Deckle edges. Book is in Good+ condition. Cover has light edgewear and some discoloration. Discoloration on pastedowns and endpapers at hinges. Front endpaper has prior owner name written in blue pen, pencil note on front pastedown. Text pages have some yellowing from age, but otherwise clean and secure.
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
- Givens Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19245
- Title
- Out of Africa
- Author
- Isak Dinesen
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- classic, out of africa, first edition, isak dinesen, 1930s, vintage, literature, novel
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Classics;
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Good+
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