LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
London: Little, Brown, 1994. FIRST LIMITED EDITION #342 of 1000 copies. Hardback. 1994. First Edition. MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. London: Little, Brown, (1994). cartographic endpapers. Immaculate copy of the stirring autobiography of the esteemed Nobel Peace Prize winner and South Africa's first black president. This is copy #342 of a limited edition of 1000 copies signed "N Mandela, 27-2-96". This beautiful, immensely and highly collectible copy, one of only one thousand published, is quarter bound in leather and SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. It is accompanied by the rare commemorative coin bearing his image and presented in a green velvet case bearing his eagle emblem. "The Nelson Mandela who emerges from his memoir is considerably more human than the icon of legend Mandela is, on the evidence of his amazing life, neither a messiah nor a moralist nor really a revolutionary but a pragmatist to the core, a shrewd balancer of honor and interests. He is, to use a word unhappily fallen into disrepute, a politician, though one distinguished from lesser practitioners of his calling mainly by his unwavering faith in his ultimate objective, ending white minority rule."Immaculate condition.. FINE / N/A. Item #10676
Price: $8,500.00