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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 facsim-
ile of the first.
Sierra Leone, Lagos, Gold Coast and
Nigeria: John Heywood, [1900], [1903]
[600/900]
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.
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