First UK Edition, first printing. Putnam, London 1937. (following the First Edition in Danish from Oct. 1937 in the same year, preceeding the first American Edition from 1938).
Book condition is very good with some tiny spots to less pages and a lightly skewed text block, minor rubbing to the spine and board edges and light toning to the boards.With a former owner's dedication on the fly leaf and a former owner's statement on the back of the half-title page (says: "The Baroness Blixen First Edition") With a new facsimile dust jacket now well preserved in a new transparent archival sleeve.
"Karen Blixen’s multi-facetted work Out of Africa describes the seventeen years she spent in former British East Africa – now Kenya – from 1914 to 1931. In this unique and remarkable book she endeavours to create both a literary and personal all-encompassing vision of “her Africa”. Karen Blixen tells us about her daily, and often dramatic, life on the farm; the country; its indigenous peoples and foreign settlers, as well as Africa’s nature and wildlife. She switches between short anecdotes and episodes in and around the farm, and essay-like reflections on the meeting between different cultures, and the realities of colonialism, of which she was a part. From beginning to end Out of Africa is an expression of loss so poignantly expressed in the famous first sentence: “I had a farm in Africa”: a story of loss from which Karen Blixen’s new life – as a writer – began."(blixen.dk)
