Out of Africa (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books) by Dinesen, Isak

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New York: Modern Library, 1992. First Thus. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. About Fine/About Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus, 3rd printing. Hard cover 12mo in stamped gray cloth. About Fine book w/lightly stained top edge, else Fine and unmarked; in About Fine unclipped DJ w/wrinkled top front edge. 399pp.

"Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called "Announcement Number One." Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, "Rockwell was… Read More

Modern Library, 1992-09-05. hardcover. Used: Good.

Unread. Tight square spine, clean crisp pages, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Dust jacket clean, has a small nick on back side top outer corner. Not a remainder.

Out Of Africa by Isak Dinesen
hardcover
Publisher:
The Modern Library 1992
Condition:book - Near Finedust jacket - Very Good+

Modern Library, September 1992. Hardcover. Like New/As New. Excellent condition, Like new. DJ is protected by a mylar cover.

Modern Library, 1992. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good+. 5x1x7. Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi.

Modern Library, 1992-09-05. Hardcover. New.

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