Gandhi Mahatma Desai Mahadev (45 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. b&w Illustrations (illustrator). dj w/some chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; private library plate; sticker mark on dj spine panel; 255 pages/index; occ marginalia and underlining.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In black cloth with gilt to type which has dulled/lost a little pigment. Corners dinged/rounded with some spots worn through and wear to spine ends. Some small stains to front and bottom page ends. Previous owner's name, location and date to ffep and small stain to top of front pastedown. Price stamp to copyright page: Rupees Seven. Some underlining in pen and pencil to several pages and a few marks, otherwise clean. Text block has some tanning. Binding is solid. 1st Printing.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, first UK edition, octavo, black cloth lettered gilt to spine, rubbed at foot of spine and to the top edge of the lower board, the binding remains tight, gift inscription to a previous owner on the front free endpaper, portrait frontis. The dust wrapper is unclipped but is chipped and creased at the head of the spine and has two small holes immediately under the spine title, now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, xiv + 420 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 18x12cm, vi + 97p. Translated from Gujarati by Somnath P. Dave. Edited by Bharatan Kumarappa. First Edition of 3000 copies, October 1951. Scarce. [esq 2 3].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good Condition. cloth bit sunned. Damage to the gutter in Vol. 2. 23.5cm. 608, 605pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First British edition, publisher's original cloth and dust jacket. Former owner's name on the front-free endpaper, faint blanching to upper covers, and age-toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear to upper front cover and upper front fold, mild wear to corners and spine ends, toning to spine and jacket margins, else fine.

First English edition. 2 vols. Halftone photographic frontispiece portrait to each vol. 8vo. Green dyed Khadi cloth, the colours differing slightly between volumes, as is often the case. Titles stamped in blue to front boards and spine. Spine of vol 1 faded with uneven tone perhaps caused by soiling or offsetting from binders glue, offsetting to endleaves, internally a clean copy. Vol 2 cloth a little soiled with discolouration to endleaves, ownership inscriptions to ffep and tp (this in Gujarati), a few scattered spots of offsetting within from where leaves had been pressed between the pages. [4], [4], iv, [2], 1-204, [2], 205-602, [2]pp; viii, 608pp. Ahmedabad, Navajivan Press, 1927 & A desirable copy of both volumes of Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography: the first English edition from Gandhi's own Navajivan Press.   Indian religious and social reformer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), known as Mahatma Gandhi, is surely one of the most recognisable figures of the twentieth century. His teachings bridged politics, religion, and philosophy, growing from a Hindu foundation into a universal doctrine of non-violence, independence from colonial rule, the pursuit of truth, and simplicity of lifestyle including vegetarianism. Following an education in England, it was during Gandhi's legal career in South Africa that he became the public spokesperson for the Indians in Natal and the Transvaal and began to engage with direct action, and the fight against discrimination. Upon his return to India, he turned his attention to the conditions of the Indian people under the continued occupation of the British Raj, and the rigid caste system. In particular he sought to abolish the idea of untouchability, and achieve progressive reform for women in Indian society. As such, he is considered to be a key figure in the Indian Independence Movement.    Though fluent in English, Gandhi chose to write his autobiography in Gujarati, which he considered to be the primary language of his people. He began writing what would become this work whilst imprisoned in 1922, sentenced at the court of Lahore to six years for inciting sedition, an aggressive governmental backlash to his non-violent direct action. The text was published initially as a series of weekly columns in his periodical Navajivan, and if there was a Gujarati edition in book format which preceded this English edition, it has eluded Gandhi's bibliographer Jagdish Sharma.    Alongside satya (truth) and ahimsa (non-violence), one of Gandhi's other guiding principles was that of swadeshi (self-sufficiency). He saw the establishment of native industry and production as key to the divestment from foreign products, and the associated corrupting forces of colonial occupation. During his time in South Africa, he abandoned Western dress and began solely to wear khadi, a hand spun cloth that would come to symbolise the movement. Gandhi himself devoted hours to spinning thread every day, and was often photographed with his wheel, or charkha. It is significant therefore that the publisher's note thanks "Sjt. Jerajani of the Khadi Bhandar, and Sjt. Shantikumar Narottam Morarji, Bombay, who took great pains in supplying and getting the Khadi dyed for use as binding cloth for this volume".   This choice of khadi as book cloth is a deliberate application of swadeshi to the publication process, which, since it was undertaken by his own press, Gandhi was intimately involved in. Gandhi's publishing ventures were under the imprints Phoenix and Navajivan Presses. He was fastidious in the quality and affordability of what he produced, considering bad printing to be an act of himsa (violence).    Sets of both volumes, first editions, are rare in the trade. The volumes are often offered separately, or sets are made up of mixed editions. It seems remarkable that this book was overlooked by Printing and the Mind of Man.    Sharma, J. S. Mahatma Gandhi: A Descriptive Bibliography. Delhi, S. Chand & Co. 1968: 155; Sharma, J. S. Indian National Congress: A Descriptive Bibliography of India's Struggle for Freedom. Delhi, S. Chand & Co. 1959: 1646. (Accessed 13 March 2024).