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Out of Africa
Karen Blixen
1937
Putnam : London
9" by 6"
ix, 416pp.
SUMMARY
A first edition copy of Karen Blixen's famous memoir.
First Edition
Overall Condition: Good
This book weighs 0.75 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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DESCRIPTION
The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding.
Out of Africa, a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen, was first published in 1937 and recounts the events of her life on her coffee plantation in Kenya, then called British East Africa. This work provides an insight into African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire.
CONDITION
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally sound, with shelf wear and damp-staining to the boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with some offsetting and spotting to the first and last few pages, and some crayon marks to the rear end paper and one of the last blank pages.
Overall Condition: Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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