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First US edition, first printing, review copy, with the publisher's slip anticipating publication on 1 March loosely inserted. The novel was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1985, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. It was first published in Britain in 1937. Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, orange paper boards, illustration to front cover in gilt, top edge green. With dust jacket. Head of spine bumped; small nicks and creases to price-clipped jacket: a near-fine copy in near-fine jacket. .

Out of Africa is Karen Blixen's poignant memoir that details her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya. Through lyrical prose, Blixen reflects on the beauty, challenges, and friendships experienced during her stay from 1914 to 1931.