His Own Story.

First Edition of Gandhi's Autobiography; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket

His Own Story.

GANDHI, Mahatma K..

Item Number: 5413

New York: MacMillan, 1930.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Gandhi on the front free endpaper. Fine in the rare original dust jacket with some wear and tear to the extremities. Most rare signed.

Gandhi's nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India had already brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation, and controversy that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. Although accepting of his status as a great innovator in the struggle against racism, violence, and, just then, colonialism, Gandhi feared that enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding. He says that he was after truth rooted in devotion to God and attributed the turning points, successes, and challenges in his life to the will of God. His attempts to get closer to this divine power led him to seek purity through simple living, dietary practices (he called himself a fruitarian), celibacy, and ahimsa, a life without violence. It is in this sense that he calls his book The Story of My Experiments with Truth, offering it also as a reference for those who would follow in his footsteps.

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