Long Walk to Freedom: First Edition: With SIGNED ENVELOPE THE INAUGURATION – Nelson Mandela

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The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa’s apartheid regime. Among the book’s interesting revelations is Mandela’s ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. It cost him two marriages and kept him distant from a family life he might otherwise have cherished. Long Walk to Freedom also discloses a strong and generous spirit that refused to be broken under the most trying circumstances–a spirit in which just about everybody can find something to admire.

Macdonald Purnell, 1994. Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. Dust Wrapper, with protective cellophane (no sticky tape marks, easily removed) Condition: Good+. Black cloth hard cover – Good+. In illustrated Dust Wrapper – Good. A Signed stamped envelope is included inside of the book Signed by Mandela in pen for the “The Inauguration of the President” A Content Good+. The only flaw is the book block is “brown” with age as are the pages, but otherwise tight and clean,