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Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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[MANDELA, Nelson]. CARLIN, John (b.1956). Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation. New York: Penguin, 2008.
8vo. Original boards; publisher's illustrated dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY NELSON MANDELA, of Carlin's history of the 1995 Rugby World Cup held in South Africa. Nelson Mandela's integral role in reshaping and racially integrating the South African National Team, the Springboks, to serve as a unifying force in post-Apartheid South Africa, was adapted into the 2009 film Invictus.