Buy this book on-line KAREN BLIXEN : On Mottoes of My Life. With a seven-page preface by Eigil BallingPresentation Books, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen, 1962
First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 32pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's motif gold-stamped to the upper board. With pictorial endpapers, a photographic portrait frontispiece, seven captioned photographs and one sketch by the author. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the head of a blank preliminary leaf. A fine copy of this transcript of the author's 1959 speech before the American Academy of Arts and Letters, here published posthumously, three months after her death. No dust wrapper called-for. Blixen, as 'Isak Dinesen', was elected honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1957. Uncommon.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of KAREN BLIXEN : On Mottoes of My Life. With a seven-page preface by Eigil Balling. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, first editions, livres illustrées, used books and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |