Out of Africa. [with] Isak Dinesen Autograph Letter Signed.

DINESEN, Isak. [Karen Blixen].

Out of Africa. [with] Isak Dinesen Autograph Letter Signed.

New York: Random House , 1938.

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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

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.

From 1914 to 1931, Danish aristocrat Baroness Karen Blixen owned and operated a coffee plantation in Kenya. After the plantation failed, she returned to Europe and began to write under the pen name Isak Dinesen. Out of Africa reads like a collection of stories in which she adheres to no strict chronology, gives no explanation of the facts of her life, and apologizes for nothing. Basis for the film bearing the same name, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, which went on to win seven Academy Awards. Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century.