93 GIFTS “I Was Not Born With A Hunger To Be Free. I Was Born Free” 133MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Randburg, South Africa, 1994. Thick octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket. $6500 The preferred first South African edition of the stirring autobiography, signed: “N Mandela, 14-12-94.” “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” (New York Times). Editions were issued in the same year in England and the United States by Little, Brown and Company. Fine condition. Clarence Darrow’s Famed Defense Of Leopold And Loeb 134DARROW, Clarence. Plea of Clarence Darrow... In Defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. Chicago, 1924. Octavo, original red- and black-printed front wrapper, plain rear wrapper. $6500 First edition, inscribed, “To Marie Plumb from a long time friend and admirer of her and her husband Glenn Plumb with the best wishes of Clarence Darrow Oct 9, 1924.” “A tragedy of three young lost lives, a dead 14-year-old victim and the imprisonment of two teenage killers... Even without Darrow in his prime, the Leopold and Loeb trial has the elements to justify its billing as the first ‘trial of the century’” (Linder, Leopold and Loeb Trial). Interior fresh with mild foxing to early leaves, touch of expert paper repair to fragile original wrappers. Near-fine. Inscribed By Ronald Reagan 135REAGAN, Ronald and HUBLER, Richard G. Where’s the Rest of Me? New York, 1965. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $4600 First edition, first printing, warmly inscribed, “To Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ballachino In friendship and with every good wish. Sincerely Ronnie Reagan.” Reagan’s first memoir coincided with his campaign for the governorship of California, which he won in 1966. Illustrated with six pages of photographs. Book in fine condition, in an extremely good dust jacket with short edge tears and slight toning to the spine. A desirable inscribed copy.
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