GANDHI, Mahatma. An Autobiography. The Story of my Experiments with Truth. Translated from the original Gujarati by Mahadev Desai.

GANDHI, Mahatma. An Autobiography. The Story of my Experiments with Truth. Translated from the original Gujarati by Mahadev Desai.GANDHI, Mahatma. An Autobiography. The Story of my Experiments with Truth. Translated from the original Gujarati by Mahadev Desai. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House. [1945]. Original cloth backed boards with dust wrappers (not price clipped); pp. viii, 422, frontispiece and one plate with two portraits on either side; upper outer corner of front cover with one bump, boards a little spotted, as well as the wrapper, which has a few repaired marginal

GANDHI, Mahatma. An Autobiography. The Story of my Experiments with Truth. Translated from the original Gujarati by Mahadev Desai. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House. [1945].

Original cloth-backed boards with dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. viii, 422, frontispiece and one plate with two portraits on either side; upper outer corner of front cover with one bump, boards a little spotted, as well as the wrapper, which has a few repaired marginal tears, front inner hinge strengthened; contemporary Kolkata bookseller's stamp inside front cover; internally rather clean and fresh.

Second printing (first 1940) of the second edition, the first in one volume, of Gandhi's cleverly titled autobiography and lasting legacy. The first edition, in two volumes had been published in 1927 and 1929 by Navadjivan Press, the printing and publishing house founded by Gandhi in 1919. Mahatma Gandhi had always been highly interested in publishing, understood the significance of the press as a medium to spread his ideas of self-reliance, truth (satyagraha) and non-violence (ahimsa). For Mahatma Gandhi, publishing wasn't merely a business or a tool for propaganda - it was an ethical responsibility.

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