Author: DINESEN, ISAK
Title: Out of Africa (Modern Library #23. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1960]. Hardcover. "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills." So begins this Modern Library reprint edition of Isak Dinesen's much-admired memoir of her time spent in Kenya. With an introduction by Bernardine Kielty. Isak Dinesen was the pen name of Denmark's Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke. With eye-pleasing green jacket design featuring Africa-themed art, including depiction of a giraffe, an elephant and other wildlife, purportedly designed by Fritz Kredel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 388 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1960 (though 1952 date appears in book). ML #23.2. --- With some dulling to cover & spine gilding, prior owner's signature to verso of ffep, else a well-preserved, clean, tightly-bound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with sticker removal evidence to front panel, small tears and chips to extremities, otherwise in good shape and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xv, 389, [2, ads] pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
Title: Out of Africa (Modern Library #23. 2)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1960]. Hardcover. "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills." So begins this Modern Library reprint edition of Isak Dinesen's much-admired memoir of her time spent in Kenya. With an introduction by Bernardine Kielty. Isak Dinesen was the pen name of Denmark's Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke. With eye-pleasing green jacket design featuring Africa-themed art, including depiction of a giraffe, an elephant and other wildlife, purportedly designed by Fritz Kredel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 388 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1960 (though 1952 date appears in book). ML #23.2. --- With some dulling to cover & spine gilding, prior owner's signature to verso of ffep, else a well-preserved, clean, tightly-bound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with sticker removal evidence to front panel, small tears and chips to extremities, otherwise in good shape and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xv, 389, [2, ads] pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Modern Library Editions >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
Price: US$ 34.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 89248
- Book number: 89248