Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Mandela, Nelson. True 1st Edition 1994.

 Macdonald Purnell, Randburg, Johannesburg, 1994. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 630 pages (complete). A very good copy of Mandela's autobiography. The dust jacket is neat and smart. It has light wear about the edges from shelving. The boards are handsome, healthy and hale. The contents are exceptionally neat. The pages are tight, fresh, bright, clean, clear, genial, confident - as if almost new throughout. A most pleasing copy.The South African first edition, first printing, and surely the most desirable of the international variants is not easy to find in clean, collectable condition. 

"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 honor 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"