Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Mahadev Desai (24 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

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.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65.

Quarter Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition, Second Printing. Xii, 589 Pp. Cloth Spine, Paper Covered Boards, Both Printed In Dark Blue. Second Printing Of 1944 Edition, Some Of Gandhi's Last Writings, Issued In A 1942 First Printing Of 2000 Copies And A Second Printing (Of Which This Book Was Part) Of Another 2000 Copies. Quarter Cloth Over Worn And Chipped Boards, Spine And Front Cover Lettering All Complete And Strong, Binding Strong, Fly Leaves Showing Moisture Stains At Edges But Pages Clean Internally. Inscription On Front Free Endpaper "To/ Dr. W. G. Griffiths,/ M.A., Phd./From/The Friends Of/ Central Church/ Cal. 24.1.1947." Griffiths Was Active In The Methodist Church In Calcutta And Throughout Bengal For Several Decades.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. ** 1ST BRITISH EDITION ** VERY GOOD-TO-NEAR FINE HARDCOVER ** GOOD-TO-VERY GOOD DUSTJACKET DUSTJACKET ** NOT A LIBRARY BOOK ** CLEAN, STAIN-FREE, UNMARKED ** COMPLETE AND INTACT ** Published by the Phoenix Press in 1949, octavo (8vo), with xiv + 420 pages, portrait photo of Gandhi as a frontispiece. Well-made book, bound in sturdy cloth-covered boards with bright embossed gilt lettering on the spine. The book itself has no notable flaws, does show minor signs of use and/or age. There is very light wear to the cloth at the spine ends and just a touch right at the corner tips, but please NOTE: the great majority of the cloth binding shows no wear at all, and in many respects the cloth appears almost as crisp and fresh as new. The book is quite clean and stain-free, square and straight, still quite firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, torn, folded, or missing. The corners have not been bumped, the hinges are sound and undamaged. All pages are clean and stain-free, with just the slight, soft patina of age that one might expect, and all text remains crisp and legible. There is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or any other such markings anywhere in the book. The dustjacket has minor wear and chipping at the corners and at the top and bottom of the spine, but like the book, the great blance of the jacket shows no wear at all. The white areas of the rear jacket panel are somewhat age-toned. The jacket is very clean and stain free, basically complete and intact, NOT price-clipped. Five-star seller, buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. LR1.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing in the U.S. 5.5 x 8.75in. xi. 640pp. Publisher's cloth boards. VERY GOOD in Fair dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows slight shelf rubbing of the extremities at the bottom edge, a very short closed tear of the cloth at the topmost of the spine, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. The dust jacket shows several chips from along the edges, slight rubbing, a long closed tear at the hinge of the back flap, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining colorful and distinct. As pictured.

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 foxed 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).