HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US."* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1970 * Publisher: Garrard Publishing Co.* Binding and cover condition: Dull yellow cloth, brown title to spine & red to face. Photographic portrait design to front board, VG+* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Considerable shelf wear to spine and all edges, chipped faded and tanned but complete. Now in a clear protective wrapper. ACC.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Some colouration to page margins and top edge dusty. VG* Illustrations: A number of b/w photos within text throughout.* Pages: 165 pp. text. x pp. glossary, chronology and index at rear. Product Description:- A biography of the Indian freedom fighter Mohandas ?Mahatma? Gandhi. His crusade for equality began when, as an obscure lawyer, he led South African mine workers in peaceful resistance against racial injustices. His goals were brotherhood and peace; his weapons absolute truth and non-violence. One of the world's greatest figures, his mission as a champion of justice, his saintly life, and his martyr's death are the focus of this remarkable biography.* This is a VG copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal shelf wear but in a tatty wrapper now in clear protective jacket.* Century Book

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ORLANDO FIGES is a professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and former University Lecturer in History at Cambridge. Born in London in 1959, he graduated with a double-starred first in History from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1982. His first book, Peasant Russia, Civil War , was described by one reviewer as 'one of the most important books ever published on the Russian Revolution'.

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1317
Title: Gandhi: Peaceful Fighter
Author: Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG/VG+/ACC
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition Thus
ISBN 10: 081164751X
ISBN 13: 9780811647519
Publisher: Garrard Pub Co
Place of Publication: Campaign, Illinois. USA. 174
Date Published: 1970-04-01

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