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Out of Africa
Karen Blixen, 1937
BLIXEN, Karen (1885-1962). Out of Africa. London: Putnam, 1937.

First edition, published one year before the American edition issued under Blixen’s pseudonym, Isak Dinesen. Chronicling Blixen's life on a coffee plantation in Kenya, the book was made into a 1985 movie starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The movie won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Octavo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket (lightly toned, some minor wear at edges, faint abrasion to spine panel); custom box.
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