Buy this book on-line ELSPETH HUXLEY : Nellie. Letters from Africa. With a MemoirWeidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 326pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a double-spread map and 18 captioned photographs. Former owner name and date neatly inked to the front pastedown, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper (no price printed to the front flap). Huxley's ninety-page memoir of her mother, Nellie Grant, followed by circa 200 pages of Nellie's letters from Kenya (including her experiences of the Mau Mau revolt), plus a further selection of letters following her relocation to the Algrave. Nellie and Major Josceline Grant arrived in Thika, then British East Africa, in 1912 and remained there for over fifty years. Their daughter Elspeth Huxley was born in raised there and this upbringing formed the basis for here celebrated childhood memoir 'The Flame Trees of Thika' (1959).. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine 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 ELSPETH HUXLEY : Nellie. Letters from Africa. With a Memoir. 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 used books, livres illustrées, out of print books, incunabula and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |