The Story of My Experiments with Truth. An Autobiography
London, Phoenix Press, 1949 (first edition in English).
Octavo, xiv, 420 pages plus a frontispiece portrait.
Black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; front bottom corner a little bumped; edges lightly marked; first and last pages offset (and to a lesser extent, the free endpapers too); contemporary ownership signature and inscription on the front free endpaper (along with a piece of adhesive tape printed with a Melbourne bookshop's details - this has stained the paper under it); an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little marked and discoloured on the rear panel, a little chipped and creased at the head of the spine, with minor loss to the front bottom corner-tip.
Translated from the Gujarati by Mahadev Desai.
Item #122739
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