Long Walk To Freedom The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Mandela, Nelson
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Little, Brown & Company (UK), 1994. Signed, Limited Edition. Fine in full, dark green morocco leather with gilt text on the spine and gilt borders on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 inches with all edges of the text block gilt and with map end sheets. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is within a dark green, cloth covered slip case. One of only 250 copies issued, bound in full leather and signed by the author. This copy is numbered 147 and signed by Nelson Mandela on the limitation page. 630 pages including an index and text. Illustrated with three sections of images from black and white photographs. There are no marks, notations or any prior ownership markings in this copy except for the signature and number noted above.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32702
- Title
- Long Walk To Freedom The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- Author
- Mandela, Nelson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Signed, Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company (UK)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
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- Text Block
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- Quarto
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- Fine
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- Morocco
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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