8vo. (Some toning.) Original cloth-backed boards (slight wear and staining); publisher’s dust jacket (split along panel folds, some toning, soiling and chipping).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Dinesen’s memoir recounting her 17 years in Kenya, then called British East Africa, which details African colonial life in the last decades of British rule in the region. The 1985 film adaptation starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep won that year’s Academy Award.

[With:] DINESEN [BLIXEN]. Out of Africa. New York: Random House, [1938]. 8vo. (Some toning.) Original cloth-backed boards (slight wear); publisher’s dust jacket (split along panel folds, some toning, soiling and chipping). Provenance: M.M. Dain (signature, 1938). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.