Nelson Mandela — Long Walk to Freedom

South Africa, Macdonald Purnell, 1994 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Nelson Mandela's ground breaking autobiography in the original dust wrapper. First edition of Long Walk to Freedom, the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Ghostwritten by Richard Stengel. The book was awarded the Alan Paton Award in 1995 and has been republished in many languages. The story tells of Mandela's childhood, education, and twenty seven years spent in prison under the apartheid government. Illustrated with twenty two pages of monochrome photography. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. There are some light creases to the extremities of the dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Various. Near Fine/Near Fine.