GANDHI MOHANDAS K Young India Inscribed and Signed

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INSCRIBED BOOK<\t>GANDHI, MOHANDAS K. Young India. Inscribed and Signed, "With love M. K. Gandhi 19-9-'31" on the half-title. Also signed by his son Devadas Gandhi, his secretaries Mahadev Gandhi and Pyarelal Nayar and his disciple Mirabehn on the front pastedown. 8vo, publisher's cloth, worn at edges, red ink stain to the fore edge; spine starting to crack, minor soiling to the endpapers; early owner's signature on the front pastedown (B. G. Platten). first edition.<><\t>Madras, 1922 [book imprint]

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While in London for the Second Round Table Conference on India, Gandhi stayed at Kingsley Hall, a community center in East London founded by Muriel Lester, a close friend of Ben Platten, the previous owner of this inscribed copy. This is the first collected edition of Gandhi's articles on non-violent resistance previously published in his weekly newspaper of the same name.<