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First edition, first impression, first issue dust jacket without reviews for this title on the rear panel; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, titles to spine gilt; with the pictorial dust jacket, spine very slightly rolled but a superb copy in the nicked dust jacket. The UK edition precedes the much more common Random House printing. Memorably filmed. This is by far the best copy we have handled. Out of Africa is Karen Blixen'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'. In Africa' I learned how to tell tales', she recalled many years later. 'The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds.' Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called 'one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century'.

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.