Mandela.

SMITH, Charlene; Desmond Tutu; [Nelson Mandela]; [Graca Machel].

$3,800.00

Item Number: 147323

London: Johnnic / Struik, 1999.

First edition of this exceptional biography of South Africa’s most influential leaders, signed for a flight attendant of President Nelson Mandela’s flight crew en route to a UN general assembly in New York. Quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed opposite the dedication page in Mandela’s hand and Michal’s signature in her hand, “To Danie, Best wishes to a remarkably warm person, “G. Machel” and “N. Mandela, 22-8-99.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. A rare dual-signed book from the former president and first lady of South Africa.

Nelson Mandela has received more than 250 awards over four decades, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, the Order of Merit and Order of St. John by, Queen Elizabeth II and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush. "Mandela rightly occupies an untouched place in the South African imagination. He is the national liberator, the saviour, its Washington and Lincoln rolled into one" (Newsweek).