MANDELA, Nelson - ALBERTS, Paul.

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Some Evidence of Things Seen. Signed limited edition, extra limited issue, number X of 10 copies issued in blue leather, and signed by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Albie Sachs, and Paul Alberts; a further 50 copies were issued in green and in red leather.A remarkable collaboration, this is the only limited edition signed by both Mandela and Tutu - Nobel Peace Prize winners in 1993 and 1984 respectively - alongside a third major figure in the anti-Apartheid movement, Albie Sachs, who became a judge on South Africa's Constitutional Court, helped draft the Bill of Rights, and has received numerous international awards for jurisprudence. The book gathers photographs of South African children taken by Paul Alberts, predominantly from before the end of apartheid, with an introduction by Mandela and text provided by Tutu and Sachs (who both additionally sign the start of their section, as issued).The copies issued in green and red leather were initially only rubber-stamped by Mandela with a signed bookplate by Tutu, and afterwards hand-signed; the copies in blue leather were signed directly without the rubber stamp and bookplate. Accompanying the book are three letters serving as certificates of authenticity, each signed by an assistant verifying that the named individual signed the book: the first on behalf of Nelson Mandela in May 1999, the second on behalf of Archbishop Tutu in September 2000, and the third on behalf of Justice Albie Sachs in October 2000. At the point of signin

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