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8 volumes. (8vo), cloth, illustrated dust jackets. Various editions. 

All volumes are signed and inscribed by Huxley to Joe Ferrier. Laid in the volumes are a number of typed and handwritten letters from Huxley to Ferrier, generally discussing her work. Elspeth Joscelin Huxley was an author, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya.

All volumes inscribed and signed by the author. Includes:

• The Flame Trees of Thika. First Edition. Chatto and Windus,1959.
• The Flame Trees of Thika. Book Club Edition. Chatto and Windus,1959.
• On the Edge of the Rift: Memories of Kenya. First U.S. Edition. William Morrow and Company, 1962.
• With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook. First US Edition. William Morrow & Company, 1964.
• The Mottled Lizard. Second Impression. Chatto and Windus, 1982.
• Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya. Third impression. Chatto & Windus, 1985.
• The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood. Illustrated by Francesca Pelizzoli and from photographs. First illustrated edition. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987.
• Grant, Nellie. Nellie's Story. With a memoir by her daughter Elspeth Huxley. First US Edition. William Morrow and Co., 1981.