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Karen Blixen – Out Of Africa – First Folio Society Edition 1980
£60.00
A first Folio Society edition, first printing of Out Of Africa, by Karen Blixen, published by The Folio Society, London in 1980, with black and white lino-cut illustrations by Peter Pendrey throughout and introduction by Elspeth Huxley. A very fine book free from internal inscriptions, pictorial cloth bound boards, gilt titling to the spine, cartographic pictorial front and rear paste-downs, the text blocks are bright and crisp. In a faux vellum paper bound slip case.
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (writing as Isak Dinesen) is a lyrical memoir of her years managing a coffee plantation in British colonial Kenya from 1914 to 1931. Blending personal reflection with vivid descriptions of the landscape, wildlife and local people, Blixen captures the beauty and complexity of life in Africa. The book explores themes of loss, love and cultural encounter, offering a poignant, elegiac tribute to a vanished world and a deeply personal colonial experience.
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A first Folio Society edition, first printing of Out Of Africa, by Karen Blixen, published by The Folio Society, London in 1980, with black and white lino-cut illustrations by Peter Pendrey throughout and introduction by Elspeth Huxley. A very fine book free from internal inscriptions, pictorial cloth bound boards, gilt titling to the spine, cartographic pictorial front and rear paste-downs, the text blocks are bright and crisp. In a faux vellum paper bound slip case.
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (writing as Isak Dinesen) is a lyrical memoir of her years managing a coffee plantation in British colonial Kenya from 1914 to 1931. Blending personal reflection with vivid descriptions of the landscape, wildlife and local people, Blixen captures the beauty and complexity of life in Africa. The book explores themes of loss, love and cultural encounter, offering a poignant, elegiac tribute to a vanished world and a deeply personal colonial experience.
