Out of Africa by Blixen, First Edition, putnam (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 495 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Octavo, pp ix, 416. Bound in red cloth covered hard boards with gilt lettering to the spine; without the jacket. This is the true first edition of this book, the more common US first appeared later and under Blixen's pen name Isak Dinesen. There is a gift inscription to the front endpaper in green ink, otherwise the book is clean within, with absolutely no foxing. The boards...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "Out of Africa" by Karen Blixen. Putnam, London. 1937 first UK edition first printing. Book in very good condition, with Johann Olsson's bookplate to front endpaper. In rare original first issue price clipped dustwrapper, without reviews for this title on the rear panel. The dustwrapper is in good condition, with minor wear and chipping to edges, and a few small tears, overall retaining its pictorial charm and in unrestored...

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing in first issue dust jacket with its original price intact without reviews for this title on the rear panel. The dj has some wear at spine top edge and light soling and darkening on his back. The book is near fine with clean burgundy boards and light wear at sine edges. Association copy of Danish dance, drama and film critics Svend Kragh -Jacobsen's as...

Later printing of the authorâs classic memoir, recounting her seventeen years in Kenya. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Karen Blixen Je Responderai March 1957." While in Africa, Blixen took as her motto âJe Responderai,â âI will answer,â from the family crest of her lover, Denys Finch-Hatton. She explained: âI liked this old motto so much that I asked Denys, an earlier pioneer in African than myself â" although all we settlers who...

First British edition of the author's masterpiece, a lyrical meditation of the years she lived in Kenya, from the library of King Edward VIII. Octavo, original cloth. With numerous original photographs and newspaper clippings affixed to the front few pages. Originally from the collection of the author's brother Thomas Fasti Dinesen with two original black and white photographs of him hunting affixed to the verso of the front free endpaper and half-title page above which he has annotated, "My...

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Up for sale is the scarce and TRUE 1ST EDITION 2nd printing of OUT OF AFRICA by Karen Blixen (pseudonym Isak Dinesen used in the US). First published by Putnam in 1937 in the UK (not the common 1st US edition which was published a year later by Random House). ***Rarely found in this high of collectible grade with its original dust jacket.*** Published in May 1938 by...

Hard Cover. First Edition. First UK Edition. 416 pages. Superbly rebound by the world-renowned Bayntun-Riviere of Bath. Sumptuously re-bound in full red morocco with all edges gilt, 5 raised bands to the spine with title blocked in gold in panel 2 and author's name blocked in gold in panel 3;decorative chiyogami end-papers; and single-line gilt border to both the front and back boards. What differentiates this copy from the norm - apart from the beautiful binding - is how...

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Putnam 1937). First UK Edition. Publisher's dark red cloth with gilt titles to the spine. A bright and clean near fine copy (base of spine a little soft and edges a trifle toned). The cloth very lightly handled to the extremities but overall, an excellent example. No inscriptions. In the RARE dustwrapper priced 12s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for). The dustwrapper is in VG condition...

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first. First UK edition, First Published November 1937, stated on copyright page. Book near fine, spine ends a little bent-in, slight browning on front and rear free end papers. Dust jacket very good, some rubbing, wear and tanning, small red bleeding from book cover on inside of dj. Comes in double slipcases.

First Edition. Library copy. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 416p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Kenya -- History. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Library copy. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 416p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Kenya -- History. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 416 pp. First edition, first printing. Publisher's maroon cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Very Good with foxing to pages, light lean to spine, light rubbing to cloth at extremities. In a Good+ first issue dust jacket with publisher's price intact, vertical crease to front panel, darkening to spine with chipping at ends, and a tear to the bottom of the rear flap fold with heavy associated creasing to the rear panel....

First edition, first impression, of the author's masterpiece, her memoir of her 17 years in British East Africa (modern-day Kenya), adapted into the 1985 Academy Award-winning film starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. This is a fine example of the Chelsea Bindery's work. Octavo (207 x 132 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery with an onlaid wraparound silhouette of an elephant and tree in black morocco set against a hand painted sunset with an onlaid sun on the...

Full Morocco. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. ix, 416 pp., Recently rebound in full morocco binding with top edge gilt. Internally clean. Later adapted into a film starring Meryl Streep, the book recounts the author's seventeen years living and working in Kenya what was at the time called British East Africa. Uncommon. 8vo.