Author: Elspeth Huxley
Title: Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
Description: London, Chatto & Windus, 1987. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first illustrated edition of this classic story of an African childhood in the years before the First World War. First illustrated edition. Illustrated in colour throughout with frontispiece, twenty-eight full page illustrations, and many in-text images and photographs. Collated complete. A collection of memories from a childhood spent in British East Africa. Written by Elspeth Huxley, an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. Illustrated by Francesca Pelizzoli, an artist and illustrator. In the original grey cloth binding. Externally, excellent with light shelf wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent with light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Francesca Pelizzoli. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Flame Trees Huxley Pelizzoli Trees Francesca Pelizzoli


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