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1994003795Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Bob. A Fine Pristine Collectible book. DJ is Price Clipped else Fine.Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it." -President Barack Obama <br/> <br/> Little, Brown and Company hardcover
202144768Folio Society 2021. 8vo. First Edition thus with portrait frontispiece numerous monochrome photographs and endpaper maps; yellow cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and black a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Folio Society, hardcover
19941296901994. First Edition. MANDELA Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Randburg South Africa: Macdonald Purnell 1994. Thick octavo original black paper boards cartographic endpapers original dust jacket. $6500.The preferred first South African edition of the stirring autobiography of the esteemed Nobel Peace Prize winner and South Africa's first black president signed on the half title: ""N Mandela 27-2-96.""""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"" New York Times. Stated ""First Published in South Africa in 1994 by Macdonald Purnell PTY Ltd."" on the copyright page. Editions were issued in the same year in England and the United States by Little Brown and Company. This Illustrated with 24 pages of black-and-white photographs. Gift inscription in Afrikaans.Fine condition. hardcover
