The Long Walk to Freedom. by London: Little, Brown and Company., 1994. First Edition, Limited Issue. Publisher’s quarter black morocco over green cloth boards, titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Map endpapers. A fine bright copy.

Limited to 1000 Numbered Copies, Signed in black ink by Nelson Mandela.

The Alan Paton Award winning autobiography of the anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient who served as the first elected president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

“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 honour 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).