The true first edition, the book being written in English and only later translated into the author's native Danish. The American first edition appeared under her pen name, Isak Dinesen.
"I had a farm in Africa," the book famously opens, "at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold."
Ex-library copy in good condition with only a stamp on the front paste down, front endpaper, and copyright page. Some age-associated wear along the boards.
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