OUT OF AFRICA
by DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen]
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- Condition
- Fine /very good
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About This Item
New York: Random House, ( 1938 ). First American edition. Hardcover. Fine /very good. 8vo, 389 pages, two-tone cloth, inked name; dj lacks thin nick at head
Classic story of life on a plantation in Kenya
Classic story of life on a plantation in Kenya
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
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DEMO016032I
- Title
- OUT OF AFRICA
- Author
- DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 1938 )
- Keywords
- africa, Karen blixen, isak dinesen, Africa,
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- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary;
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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