Long Walk To Freedom.

MANDELA, Nelson.

Item Number: 3642

London: Little Brown, 1994.

First Signed Limited edition, one of 250 numbered copies. Octavo, bound in full green leather, gilt titles and ruling to the spine and front panel. There was a limited edition in cloth issued in a numbered edition of 750 copies. Fine in a fine slipcase as issued, original brown cardboard the item was shipped in. Exceptionally rare, this is the first copy we have encountered.

"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).