Lot 178
India.- Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) The Story of My Experiments with Truth, second edition, Ahmedabad, Navajivan Press, 1940.
Hammer Price: £600
Description
India.- Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) The Story of My Experiments with Truth, second edition in English and first single volume edition, translated by Mahadev Desai, frontispiece, light toning to title and endpapers, original cloth, some fading and discolouration, a few spots, dust-jacket, the odd hole, browning and spotting, heavier to spine, chips and slight loss to spine head, 8vo, Ahmedabad, Navajivan Press, 1940.
⁂ Gandhi's autobiography was originally written in weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929. Its English translation also appeared in installments in his other journal Young India. This is the first single volume edition, tracing his birth and parentage until a discussion of the Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress in 1915.
Description
India.- Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand) The Story of My Experiments with Truth, second edition in English and first single volume edition, translated by Mahadev Desai, frontispiece, light toning to title and endpapers, original cloth, some fading and discolouration, a few spots, dust-jacket, the odd hole, browning and spotting, heavier to spine, chips and slight loss to spine head, 8vo, Ahmedabad, Navajivan Press, 1940.
⁂ Gandhi's autobiography was originally written in weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929. Its English translation also appeared in installments in his other journal Young India. This is the first single volume edition, tracing his birth and parentage until a discussion of the Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress in 1915.