first edition Hardcover
1938
by Dinesen, Isak
New York: Random House, 1938 First American edition, first printing. Publisher's rust-colored cloth over black spine, stamped in gilt with gilt depiction of a flamingo to front board, top edge stained green; in the original pictorial dust jacket with an illustration of a dense jungle scene. Light dimming to front board gilt, else fine book; very good clipped dust jacket, with shallow chipping to head of spine, light wear to spine ends and panel edges, a shallow chip to top right corner of front panel, and light soiling to rear panel. Overall, a pleasing copy. Out of Africa is the memoir of Danish author Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke and is based (truncated)