* * * * H O L I D A Y G I F T S * B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S 11 "I HAD A FARM IN AFRICA, AT THE FOOT OF THE NGONG HILLS…" 11. DINESEN, Isak. Out of Africa. New York, 1938. Octavo, original black and orange cloth, dust jacket. $2000 First American edition of Dinesen’s famous account of her experiences in Africa. Dinesen was born in Denmark but wrote both in English and Danish, and her books usually appeared simultaneously in both languages. She “married her cousin, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. They ran a coffee plantation in Kenya, which she continued to manage after her divorce; the story of this failed enterprise is told in Out of Africa… written after her return to Denmark in 1931” (Drabble, 109). Preceded by the first English edition in 1937. Book with darkening to endpapers, dust jacket with minimal wear, usual toning to spine. A near-fine copy.
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