Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
VG/G 1st Print

For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen in a new archival wrap. First Edition stated, 1938 Random House.  First Printing with no subsequent printing  on the copyright page.

The exterior of the book is in Very Good condition with clean, cloth boards with a bird design on the front board. The spine is lightly sunned with a strong title and author gilt. Also, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners.  The interior of the book is also in Very Good condition with the previous owner’s bookplate on the unevenly toned front paste down which is hidden by the front flap. No other marks, inscriptions or other signs of ownership. The interior pages are clean and lightly toned.

The dust jacket is in Good condition with a gap on the top spine end, moderate surface wear, heavy edge wear, and the $3.75 price and 10/58 date on the front flap.  Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.

Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen’s memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories “like Scheherazade.”

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