No Easy Walk To Freedom: A Firsthand Report of the Struggle of Apartheid.

MANDELA, Nelson.

Item Number: 3978

London: William Heinemann, 1965.

First British edition of Nelson Mandela’s classic account of the struggle against South Africa’s apartheid system. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by Nelson Mandela on the half title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket a few small closed tears. An inscription from South African Journalist Abraham Ngidi is on the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, most rare signed.

No Easy Walk To Freedom contains Nelson Mandela’s famous speech at the Rivonia Trial; now regarded as among the greatest speeches ever given. His closing statement is captured for the first time in this volume that states, "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against White domination and I have fought against Black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and achieve, but if need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."