Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 124

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(AFRICA.) MERRIMAN-LABOR, A.B.C. Handbook of Sierra Leone for 1901 and 1902 [and 104 and 1905], being a Treasury of Information Relating to Every Conceivable Matter of Interest Connected with the Colony and its Protectorate. Two volumes, large folding map in each volume, copious charts and illustrated adverts. First volume in original cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; second volume rebound in facsimile of the first. Sierra Leone, Lagos, Gold Coast and Nigeria: John Heywood, [1900], [1903]
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the rare first edition and second revised edition of the first guide to an african colony written by an African author. A. B. C. Merriman-Labor was an Anglo-African native of Sierra Leone and the author of several books; one of them a very funny lampoon titled 'Britons through Negro Spectacles,' the other, more serious, 'Racial Discrimination in Edwardian Britain.' All of Merriman-Labor's books are scarce.