Biko (SIGNED)

First edition, 1978. 288pp. + [xvi] plates. SIGNED with a dedication by the author to ffe. Hardback in dust jacket. Publisher’s brown cloth boards with Biko’s face blind stamped to front and gilt lettering to spine. Very slight browning to edges of text block. Jacket a little sunned to spine. *** Donald Wood’s celebrated account of Steve Biko, South Africa’s leading Black Consciousness spokesman who was brutally murdered while in police custody. Woods risked his life writing about the murder and had to flee the country – an escape that in itself captured the imagination of the world. This copy inscribed by Woods, “To Anne with best wishes”.