9780151530809 - Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from "Out of Africa" de Kamante; Beard, Peter (36 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Clean cover and content pages. Spine lean. New protective Mylar applied to dust jacket before shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good, Price Clipped. Second Printing. Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; well illustrated with black and white photographs taken between January 1914 and July 1931 by Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]; 258 pages. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Dark brown pictorial boards. Gift inscription inked on front flyleaf, otherwise as issued. Color illus. dust jacket shows price-clipped front flap, otherwise as issued, now in mylar. Stated 1st edition. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Previous owner's name to the front free endpage. Minor wear to dust jacket & board edges, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. A very good hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Gently used with a bit of spine lean but no markings.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Dinesen, Isak (photographs by) (illustrateur). "First Edition" stated but letter line ends at "B" therefore 2nd printing, toning to edges of text block - rubbing to top/bottom edges of spine, top corners of boards and bottom edges of boards - bottom corners of boards lightly bumped, mylar enclosed dj shows edge wear with - 1/4" and 5/8" tears with a very small chip and creasing along top edge with a tiny tear to bottom right of front panel - 3 tiny tears with creasing along top edge of rear panel - 3 tiny tears along top edge and a tiny chip to bottom edge of spine - 1/4" tear to lower end of fold front panel to spine - 1/4" tear to bottom of fold front panel to flap, original price intact, illustrated with numerous drawings and black & white photographs, pages not numbered.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st. 1975 Hardcover 1st Edition. Light shelf wear to with small edge tears to top of DJ. Corner abrasion to lower right corner of DJ. Pages clean & unmarked. No Expedited Shipping.

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1970. Some general wear. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket has some foxing and a few short tears along the top edge. Previous owner inscription on front blank end page. 6256L.

Hardcover. Etat : Near fine. Etat de la jaquette : very good +. First edition. "With original photographs (January 1914--July 1931) and quotations from Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)." Collected by Peter Beard. Stories, drawings and watercolor art by Kamante. Afterword copy of letter from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. 8-1/2 x 12. Black board edges slightly rubbed. Dust jacket spine is lightly faded, else fine.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. unpaginated. Pictorial Black boards 100's of black and white photos throughout. Light wear to the extremities, internally clean, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket creased along the upper edges, closed tears along the extremities. Peter Beard has lived near Karen Blixen's farm and collected her story from many of her friends and staff in Africa. In this beautiful book he assembles excellent original photographs of Karen Blixen and enhances them with photographs of his own from Africa. The commentary is by Kamante Gatura, Karen Blixen's cook. A fascinating book, especially because Kamante's version differs from that of some of Karen Blixen's biographers. The illustrations compliment a reading of Linda Donelson's "Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa: Karen Blixen's untold story." Size: Large Quarto. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Oversized hardback book with 108 drawings, 100 photographs, and 15 pages in color. In price clipped dust jacket that has small tears top and bottom edge. Second printing - INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL CHARGE. Bookseller since 1995 FBL(ULCARPT-Farwall-Top) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st. (USA) Stated first edition, No markings, faint small sticker ÈghostÈ to corner of endpaper, solid Very Good in unclipped Very Good dust jacket with a small crease to the front flap. 31 x 21 cm, hardcover, no page numbers about 200 pages, B&W photos and drawings augmented with some colour drawings. In this lovely book, the world of Isak Dinesen is re-created by her old major-domo, Kamante, the hero of her classic Out of Africa. Here Kamante gives his version of Out of Africa, related to Peter Beard and translated from Swahili and handwritten by Kamante's sons. Also included are his renderings of the Fables of Aesop, taught by Blixen at her Karen Coffee Farm School. Here, too are many never-before-unpublished photos from the collections of |Issak Dinesen, her brother Thomas, and her great friend Denys Finch-Hatton, along with Beard's own superb photos of the vanishing African wilderness. There iss an afterword by Jackie Onasis in which she calls this book "a work of love". (3.5 JM LVR 202/6 Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

folio, 266 pages, coloured drawings,160 photographs (by Beard & Blixen), 168 drawings, captions : remarkable book by Kamante, the former major-domo of KAREN BLIXEN, giving his version of "Out Of Africa", related to Peter Beard, translated from the Swahili and handwritten by Kamante's sons, throws a whole new light on to Karen Blixen and Kenya; hardback, vg almost vg dw has become a cult book - a heavy book that may attract extra postage isbn 0151530807 karen blixen kenya east africa out of africa blixen white settlers white kenyan highlands.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in unclipped dust jacket. Minor wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition stated with letter line of B C D E. For this publisher, that means first edition. Book and dust jacket solid VG for their age. One small tear at back top of DJ. Otherwise no tears.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Published 1975 very good hardback, foxing to pag edges, bottom front board corner lightly bumped, in a very good dust wrapper, corners and edges rubbed, small closed tears. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Owner's inscriptions. 168 drawings, 160 photographs, 15 pages in colour. EXTRA SHIPPING For Overseas Buyers.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. First edition Book in very good condition Clean unmarked contents. Block edges are foxed and there is wear to tips of corners Wrapper in good condition 1cm tear with small chipped piece missing from base front wrapper. Similarly rubbed on extreme tips corners.

folio, 266 pages, coloured drawings,160 photographs (by Beard & Blixen), 168 drawings, captions : remarkable book by Kamante, the former major-domo of KAREN BLIXEN, giving his version of "Out Of Africa", related to Peter Beard, translated from the Swahili and handwritten by Kamante's sons, throws a whole new light on to Karen Blixen and Kenya; hardback, vg almost vg dw (sl rubbed to edges), PRESENTATION COPY from the staff of Zambia Airways to a leaving colleague (Heather Jordan ?) with many signatures on the end paper & a large greetings card with further signatures & messages UNIQUE. a heavy book that may attract extra postage isbn 0151530807 karen blixen kenya east africa out of africa blixen white settlers white kenyan highlands.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Illustrated with 168 drawings and 160 original photographs (January 1914 - July 1931). With photographs and captions by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). Afterword by Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis. First printing. Very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 2nd. edge wear on the book and jacket. gift inscription. some usage markings. sound binding. VERY HEAVY, may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good Dustjacket With photographs and captions by Isak Dinesen.

Etat de la jaquette : dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A fascinating book which examines Isak Dinesen's and her companion Kamante's lives in Africa. Includes some color and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations. A clean and tight near fine copy with some of the usual wear to the edges of the boards and in a near fine dust jacket with a couple of small edge tears and some other minor wear. Still, a nicer than usual copy of the third book from Beard, whose first book, "The End of Game" is widely considered to be a masterpiece.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Illustrated with 168 drawings and 160 original photographs (January 1914 - July 1931). With photographs and captions by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). Afterword by Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis. First printing. Foxing on top edge, else very good in a very good dust jacket.

Paperback. Etat : new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

paperback. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Kamante (illustrateur). Condition Notes: Dust wrapper much sunned at the spine, edgeworn, with a heavy pull to the head of the upper panel with a short, closed, tear resultant. Previous owners' name to the first blank. Pages a touch age-toned with scattered spotting, more so to the start and end; Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with white titles to the spine; Measures 12¼" x 8¼" (1.7 kg); pp 0; Translated by Kamante; A Later Printing. Includes: Black & white photographs, within the text with some full page; Black & white drawings; Colour drawings; Frontispiece; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #201256 ||.