Dry Guillotine Fifteen Years Among the Living Dead
by Belbenoit, Rene; Ills by A Fellow Prisoner & Preston Rambo (Trans)
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- Good
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About This Item
E-280: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc. Good. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc, New York. 1938. 345 pgs. 12 illustrated. Later printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Extraordinary, searing true account of life in the French prison on Devils Island. Belbenoit recounts his 15 year prison term in the hell of French Guiana at Devil's Island. The work outlines his 5 escape attempts, the fifth being successful. A scathing description, by the only survivor, of life in the French penal colony and the hell to be found there at that time. E-280; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 345 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63393
- Title
- Dry Guillotine Fifteen Years Among the Living Dead
- Author
- Belbenoit, Rene; Ills by A Fellow Prisoner & Preston Rambo (Trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- E-280
- Date Published
- 1938
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