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“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road”: Out of Africa; inscribed by Karen Blixen
BLIXEN, Karen. [Isak Dinesen].
Out of Africa.
London: Putnam, 1948.
Later printing of the author’s classic memoir, recounting her seventeen years in Kenya. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Karen Blixen Je Responderai March 1957." While in Africa, Blixen took as her motto “Je Responderai,” “I will answer,” from the family crest of her lover, Denys Finch-Hatton. She explained: “I liked this old motto so much that I asked Denys, an earlier pioneer in African than myself – although all we settlers who had come out before the war looked upon ourselves as one family, a kind of Mayflower people – if I might have it for my own. He generously made me a present of it and even had a seal cut for me, with the words carved on it. The device was meaningful and dear to me for many reasons, two in particular. The first of these was its high valuation of the idea of the answer in itself. For an answer is a rarer thing than is generally imagined. There are many highly intelligent people who have no answer at all in them. A conversation or a correspondence with such persons is nothing but a double monologue – you may stroke them or you may strike them, you will get no more echo from them than from a block of wood. And how, then, can you yourself go on speaking?” Very good in a very good price-clipped dust...
Price: $11,000.00 Item Number: 144520
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“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions": First Edition of Karen Blixen's Out of Africa
BLIXEN, Karen [Isak Dinesen].
Out of Africa.
London: Putnam, 1937.
First British edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional example, rare in this condition.
Price: $6,000.00 Item Number: 151112
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“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions": First Edition of Out of Africa; With an Autograph Letter Signed by Her
DINESEN, Isak. [Karen Blixen].
Out of Africa. [with] Isak Dinesen Autograph Letter Signed.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original pictorial half cloth, top stain green. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Together with an autograph letter signed by Blixen. Duodecimo, written in Danish, four pages on wove letter paper, undated, addressed to Fritz Aude-Hansen. The first page has a full page pen-and-ink sketch of “cannibals and missionaries,” according to the letter, with little figures on land and canoe. The letter mentions a dinner invitation and the recipient’s “wild jungle trip”, and is signed “Karen Dinesen.” Accompanied by the original mailing holograph envelope, with a street address of “Noahs Ark” and the letter also addressed to Noah. In near fine condition. The letter measures 4.25 inches by 6.75 inches. Rare and desirable.
Price: $3,500.00 Item Number: 150903
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“I turned to the animal world from the world of men; my heart was heavy with the tragedy of the night": First Edition of Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa; Finely Bound the Harcourt Bindery
DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen] .
Out of Africa.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First American edition of the author's masterpiece, a lyrical meditation of the years she lived in Kenya. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 141302
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“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions": First Danish Edition of Karen Blixen's Out of Africa
BLIXEN, Karen [Isak Dinesen].
Den Afrikanske Farm. [Out of Africa].
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1937.
First Danish edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Rare in this condition.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 151113
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“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions": First edition of Karen Blixen's Out of Africa
DINESEN, Isak. [Karen Blixen].
Out of Africa.
New York: Random House, 1938.
First edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original pictorial half cloth, top stain green. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 148336
