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Out of Africa.
by BLIXEN, Karen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Putnam,, 1937. You know you are truly alive when you're living among lions First edition, first impression, of the author's memoir of her 17 years in Kenya. Begun at Mbogani House as a collection of factual travel sketches, "it was revised to depict a vanished and inaccessible utopia - one with a beauty and harshness abstracted from African actuality" (Orlando). It was adapted into the 1985 Academy Award-winning film starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. A Danish translation, by the author herself, was published later in 1937, followed by the US edition in 1938. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine cocked, a little shelf-wear at extremities, foxing to edges and a few initial and final leaves; jacket toned and rubbed at edges, head of spine panel nicked and with small chip, rear panel a little soiled, a couple of marks, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.
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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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 173970
- Title
- Out of Africa.
- Author
- BLIXEN, Karen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Putnam,
- Date Published
- 1937
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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