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The foremost directory of Ceylon

[Ceylon] The Times of Ceylon Green Book. The foremost directory of Ceylon. 1941. Colombo The Times of Ceylon 1941
Twenty-first edition, pp.xviii, 1400, illustrated adverts. A good complete used copy in original cloth. Spine dulled.

A compendium of everything the Ceylon resident needed to know at the outbreak of World War II, organised in sections, general, legal, official and professional, institutions and clubs, sports and pastimes, estates in planting districts (400 pp.), separate men's and women's sections, overseas, and obituaries for the year. The Green Book was first published in 1921.