COLONIALISM - Sylvère ALCANDRE (Guadeloupean lawyer) / "L'Emancipation des Peuples colonisés": 3 volumes in one bound half tan chagrin with corners and spine stamped with the owner's initials, original editions, covers preserved, each volume with a letter from the author to President Banaud Ponnou-Delaffon (Nigerian magistrate), Editions "Le Coq noir" - Volume 1 : "From the Agony of Colonialism to World Peace" (1949, 260 p) - Volume 2: "From Colonialism in Africa to International Negrophobia" (1954, 202 p, 1/100 numbered copies on vellum of Moirans, 4 plates out of text) - Volume 3: "From the Emancipation of Africa to the Resurrection of the Black Race for France and Peace in the World" (1954, 193 p, 1/100 numbered copies on Moirans vellum, 8 plates out of text)

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