New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1969. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Boards show light shelf wear, Price-clipped DJ has heavier wear with short tears, creasing and light soiling. 1/2" square piece missing from DJ at front top near spine. Blind stamp lower back corner of book indicates a book club. . ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, B&W photographs, stated first edition ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 703 pages; "Robert Payne re-creates Mahatma Gandhi both as a spiritual and historical force and as a living personality. Beginning with the moving story of a shy, awkward boy from a provincial Indian city who married at thirteen, then was separated from his bride for years while he read law in London, the book describe Gandhi's life as a successful barrister in South Africa who turned his back on wealth to defend Indian settlers against discrimination and persecution. In the tradition of his best-selling biographies of Lenin and Schweitzer, Robert Payne's life brings Gandhi alive as a rounded personality. Payne superbly describes Gandhi's daring marches to aid the oppressed, his fasts and imprisonments, his historic achievements at international congresses and conferences in India and England where, clad only in shawl and loincloth, he met with prime ministers and viceroys and won their respect as he fought for the dignity and freedom of his people." .

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Seller: Ainsworth Books (CA)
Seller's Inventory #: 20468
Title: The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi
Author: Payne, Robert
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
Edition: Book Club Edition
Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1969
Keywords: India, Non-violence
Bookseller catalogs: India;

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Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.

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First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...