Hi! You're looking at a SUPERB condition book which is a classic memoir of life on an African plantation in Kenya written by Danish author KAREN BLIXEN under her pen name ISAK DINESEN--the book is a beautiful Modern Library copy (No. 23) published in the early 1970s and a HARDCOVER with the ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET and is NOT a remainder copy and NOT price-clipped, with the original $2.95 price in the upper corner of the front inner flap. This book is in SUPERB condition and the book itself has a VERY slight ding on the upper right edge of the front board paper and upper left edge of the first page but NO other significant imperfections; the dustjacket has a faint pencil mark on the upper right corner of the front inner flap, a tiny tear and crease on the lower right edge of the back surface, slight dings on the spine and upper opening tips and just slight shelfwear otherwise but NO other significant flaws!  The book is titled Out of Africa and it was written by ISAK DINESEN with an introduction by BERNARDINE KIELTY;  it was published by The Modern Library in 1952 as No. 23 and is an early 1970s printing.

Out of Africa is 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. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories "like Scheherazade." In Africa, "I learned how to tell tales," she recalled many years later. "The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds." Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called "one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century."Isak Dinesen (1885–1962) was born Karen Christence Dinesen in Rungsted, Denmark. She wrote poems, plays, and stories from an early age, including Seven Gothic Tales , Winter's Tales , Last Tales , Anecdotes of Destiny , Shadows on the Grass and Ehrengard . Out of Africa is considered her masterpiece.

A fantastic find, and a beautiful copy of this book!