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Shadows on the Grass
by Dinesen, Isak
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Random House, 1961. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good Reading Copy / Book Club Edition. Copyright 1960; First published in the United States, 1961. Hard cover in good condition with brown boards, teal spine cloth, gold spine lettering with a blue panel with green horizontal lines representing grass. Former owner's name at top right corner of front free endpaper. Papers are age toned; light foxing throughout, especially on the plates: four glossy Black & white photographs. Frontispiece is one of these and is of Isak Dinesen in New York in 1959. This portrait, and another included, were painted by Isak Dinesen herself. Dust jacket is good condition with a 1 1/2"" rectangle missing from the heel of spine; age toning to papers, shelf & edge wear. Also included is a ""Bookmark"" reprinted from Book-of-the-Month Club News"" which opens and contains a report by Basil Davenport about the life of Isak Dinesen."" * From the jacket flaps, ""Out of Africia"" is perhaps Isak Dinesen's most widely read work. Now this distinguished Danish writer, who lived in Africa for many years, recalls again the African land and people she knows so well. Endowing dramatic experiences with her wondrous insight, she presents in this book four additional stories: Farah, Barua A Soldani (Letter from a King), The Great Gesture, Echoes from the Hills.""
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- Seller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- M001412
- Title
- Shadows on the Grass
- Author
- Dinesen, Isak
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- History, Kenya, Isak Dinesen - 1885-1962 - Homes and haunts - Kenya, Country life - Kenya, Danish Authors - 20th century - Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; History of Africa;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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