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Auction #135 begins on 12 Nov 2026

Mandela (Nelson)

THE ILLUSTRATED LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (Limited edition)

The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Published: Little Brown and Company, Boston New York Toronto London, 1996

Edition: Limited edition

Reserve: $1,500

Approximately:

Estimate: $1700/1900

Bidding opens: 12 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 19 Nov 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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Limited Edition: 208 pages, frontispiece portrait, profusely illustrated throughout with colour and black & white photographs, quarter black morocco, brick-red cloth sides, all edges gilt, silk place marker, a very good copy in the original black cloth solander case with a title label on the upper cover, lined with blue moiré cloth and a dark blue silk ribbon lifter, a very good copy.

This edition is quarter bound by hand in Wassa goatskin from South Africa. It is limited to four hundred and twenty-five copies and includes a specially commissioned portrait taken by Benny Gool of Southern Images Rondebosch. Each portrait is signed by President Mandela.

This is copy number 91.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 4to (310 x 250 mm)


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