"DINESEN, Isak" [i.e. Karen BLIXEN (1885-1962)]. Out of Africa, New York, 1938, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With c.24 other books by, or relating to, the same author. (c.25)

"DINESEN, Isak" [i.e. Karen BLIXEN (1885-1962)].  Out of Africa. New York: Random House, 1938. 8vo (206 x 140mm). Half title, title in a green panel (stain at margin of one leaf near the end). Original black buckram-backed cloth with flamingo design stamped in gilt on the upper cover, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt, dust-jacket with price of $2.75 unclipped (the jacket with small pieces torn away from the upper corners, some very minor fraying to the head and foot of backstrip). Provenance: "H.W." (label on front pastedown). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With c.24 other books by, or relating to, the same author, including Seven Gothic Tales ... With an Introduction by Dorothy Canfield (New York, Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934, 8vo, original half cloth and paper boards gilt, without the dust-jacket, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION), Out of Africa (London, Putnam, "Reprinted May 1938", 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket), Winter's Tales (New York, Random House, 1942, 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION), Shadows on the Grass (London, Michael Joseph, 1960, 8vo, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST EDITION) and Shadows on the Grass (New York, Random House, 1961, 8vo, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION). Only a small part of the lot is illustrated. (c.25)