That strange little brown man Gandhi. by [INDIA -- GANDHI]. FISHER, Frederick B - 1932.
by [INDIA -- GANDHI]. FISHER, Frederick B
That strange little brown man Gandhi.
by [INDIA -- GANDHI]. FISHER, Frederick B
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932. 8vo. viii, [6], 239, [1] pp. Title in red & black. Sepia-tinted frontisp., 6 sepia-tinted plates. Green publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering on covers & spine, maps on endpapers (light glue offseting toning at gutter margins, minor edgewear), w/ d.j. wraparound cover photo shows Gandhi speaking to 100,000 Hindus and Muslims after returning from the London Conference in 1931 (very minor chipping head & foot of spine, edgewear, couple very minor closed tears), VG/VG, signed by author on ffep. First edition, signed, of this biography drawing from the author’s personal interviews and direct contact with Gandhi, whom he had first met in 1917. Fisher (1882-1938) was bishop of the Methodist Church in India, who considered Gandhi to be an exceedingly shrewd statesman, whose campaign of civil disobedience is as much an implement of warfare as machine guns and poison gas among western nations. Scarce in original dustjacket.
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Bookseller
Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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- Book Condition Used
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc.,
- Place of Publication New York:
- Date Published 1932.
- Keywords India, Indian HIstory, Philosophy, Political History, British Empire, British Imperialism, Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Central Asia, biography, Frederick B. Fisher, Signed Copies, signed Firsts