(Sold): ERIC, Speedy. Mabel the Sweet Honey that poured away.

(Onitsha, Nigeria): A. Onwudiwe & Sons, [196-?]. First edition. Softcover. 20.6 by 13.3cm. A sexually charged novella (“Her skin would make your blood flow in the wrong direction”) of Onitsha Market Literature, telling the story of Mabel, a beautiful young woman whose successive relationships lead to her downfall. The novel is set in Onitsha and Port Harcourt and is representative of the sensational romantic fiction produced for Nigeria’s growing reading public in the 1960s. It has been suggested that ‘Speedy Eric’ was the psuedonym of A. Onwudiwe the publisher. A very good copy in stapled wrappers.