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First edition, first impression, of the author's memoir of her 17 years in Kenya. Begun at Mbogani House as a collection of factual travel sketches, "it was revised to depict a vanished and inaccessible utopia - one with a beauty and harshness abstracted from African actuality" (Orlando). It was adapted into the 1985 Academy Award-winning film starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. A Danish translation, by the author herself, was published later in 1937, followed by the US edition in 1938. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Spine cocked, a little shelf-wear at extremities, foxing to edges and a few initial and final leaves; jacket toned and rubbed at edges, head of spine panel nicked and with small chip, rear panel a little soiled, a couple of marks, unclipped: a very good copy in like 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.