Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 141

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AFRICA--LIBERIA.) CAMPHOR, ALEXANDER PRIESTLEY. Missionary Story Sketches, Folk-Lore From Africa. Frontispiece portrait and eight additional illustrations from photographs. 346 pages, thick 8vo, original cloth with a photographic inset of tribal life on the upper cover. Cincinnati, 1909

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first edition, bearing a warm inscription from the author to 'Anna Miner Cecil, Merry Christmas from Dr. Camphor, 1911.' A rich collection of stories chronicling tribal life in Liberia and environs by this African American missionary. Anna Cecil was one of Dr. Camphor's students.