Renowned civil rights leader (born 1918) who, in 1994, became the first black president of South Africa. From 1964 to 1990, Mandela was imprisoned for opposing South Africa’s white minority government and its policy of apartheid; in 1993, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Signed book: Long Walk to Freedom. Signed collector’s edition (limitation not specified). Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2000. Leather-bound hardcover, 6.25 x 9.5, 558 pages. Signed in black ink on a specially designated prefatory page, “N. Mandela.” Dent to top edge of text block, otherwise very fine condition. R&R COA.
