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Signed luxury edition of Nelson Mandela's powerful autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom." Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press: 1994. Signed "N Mandela" on the limitation page in black ink. A Nobel Peace Prize winner and the first democratically-elected President of South Africa, Mandela began work on the autobiography during his 27 year stint in a South African prison. 558pp. measures 6.25" x 9.5" with many black and white photographs chronicling Mandela's life. Beautifully bound in green leather boards with gilt design, pink silk moire endpapers and all edges gilt. Interior printed on acid-neutral paper. With sewn-in silk book marker. Includes COA from publisher Easton Press. The faintest 0.5" scratch to gilt fore edge, else an extremely handsome edition in fine condition.