LONGING FOR DARKNESS: KAMANTE'S TALES FROM OUT OF AFRICA (WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND QUOTATIONS COLLECTED BY PETER BEARD) - A UNIQUE COPY ELABORATELY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY PETER BEARD
by (BEARD, PETER) (BLIXEN, KAREN). Beard, Peter, Kamante & Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0877017247
- ISBN 13
- 9780877017240
- Seller
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Culver City, California, United States
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- Bookseller
- Arcana: Books on the Arts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026350
- Title
- LONGING FOR DARKNESS: KAMANTE'S TALES FROM OUT OF AFRICA (WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND QUOTATIONS COLLECTED BY PETER BEARD) - A UNIQUE COPY ELABORATELY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY PETER BEARD
- Author
- (BEARD, PETER) (BLIXEN, KAREN). Beard, Peter, Kamante & Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0877017247
- ISBN 13
- 9780877017240
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Peter Beard, Kamante, Karen Blixen, Isak Dinesen, Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis, Jackie Kennedy, Africa, African Wildlife Photography, Africa, Elephants, "Hog Ranch", Nairobi, Kenya, Fashion, Photo Monograph, Signed Book Books, Original Art, Graphi
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