Bram de does biography of mahatma gandhi

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THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH BY MAHATMA GANDHI 1927 FIRST EDITION

[GANDHI, Mahatma]. The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan Press, 1927.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Volume one only (of two); cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (24cm x 15cm x 4cm); pp. [22], 602, [6]; English text; bound in publisher original cloth lettered in blue; edges untrimmed; halftone photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard; rear index in double columns. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Slight soiling to covers. Interior largely clean, the last few leaves with some staining. Contemporary gift inscription inked to front endpaper. Scarce.

Notes: Very rare first edition in English of Gandhi's autobiography. A book, which has been regarded as one of the '100 best spiritual books of the 20th century'. It was originally written in weekly instalments published in his journal 'Navjivan' from 1925 to 1929. The English instalments also appeared in his other journal 'Young India'. In the original publisher's cloth binding in good condition. This is the first volume of two regarding Gandhi's life. This was all that was issued at the time of publication, with the second volume appearing in 1929. The two volumes are seldom found together.

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Well, this is not the first time that I publicly declare my love for this amazing piece designed by Bram de Does, but I insist on advertising it since I do believe more people should be aware of this part of his work, beyond Trinité and Lexicon.

The first time I came across this beauty was during Type and Media, while we visited De Buitenkant and Jan de Jong showed the class the notes and proofs for the Kaba ornament book by Bram, which they published in 2006.

At De Buitenkant in Amsterdam

I immediately saw how amazing and powerful that little piece of design was. Although it seems very simple, this “little drawing” is very complex. It is able to produce countless options of vignettes, borders and patterns, as illustrated in his books about the ornament. I don’t believe there is any other ornament as versatile and elegant as this one. The asymmetrical shape has a perfect balance between black and white, just like yin and yang. The curved lines are very refined, adjusted by the skilled eyes and hands of Mr. de Does.

A few years later I was invited by Mathieu Lommen and John L. Walters to be part of the Eye Archive night during ATypI Amsterdam, where I had to pick an item from the Special Collections to highlight and present. Even though they ha