Lot 27: BLIXEN, Karen (1885-1962). Out of Africa. London: Putnam, 1937.

8 o. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket (some minor chips and stains along edges); imaginative quarter morocco folding case with cloth and leather onlays of a monkey and a flamingo.

FIRST EDITION, published one year before the American edition that was issued under her pseudonym, Isak Dinesen. Chronicling Blixen's life on a coffee plantation in Kenya, the book was made into a 1985 movie starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The movie won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.