The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
$500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books
First edition
London: Chatto & Windus, 1959. First edition, first printing. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with small faint stain at tail, light foxing to textblock edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel and light foxing. Also in the rare Book Society Choice belly band, sunned on the spine.A beautiful copy of Elspeth Huxley's memoir of growing up in
- Printing: first
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