Millie Graham Polak - Mr. Gandhi: the Man. Foreword by C.F. Andrews
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Millie Graham Polak - Mr. Gandhi: the Man. Foreword by C.F. Andrews - London - George Allen & Unwin Ltd. - 1931 - 1st edition - [188] pp - Cloth binding - 13 x 19 cm.
Condition: Good - with wear, faint stains, top of spine damaged, last free endpaper removed, bookplate and stamp ('Plymouth Mental Hospital').
An early biography of the Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait photograph in black and white (by Navana; a young Gandhi "wearing the badge of the English Vegetarian Society"). At the back a list of other Gandhi titles. Hardback first edition. Rare.
¶ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a witness at the 1905 wedding in South Africa of his Jewish 'soulmates' Millie Graham Down and Henry Polak (1882-1959) and, according to some juicy sources, he had an affair with Millie, who describes her first meeting with him as follows:
"[he had] the kindest eyes in the world, that seemed to light up from within when he spoke. [...] His voice was soft, rather musical, and almost boyishly fresh".