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New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original blue cloth hard covers, with black titling and design to front and spine. Soiling and rubbing to covers. Toning to edges and endpapers; some mild staining to top edge, mostly affecting plates. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- still a sound and tight copy. Illustrated (plates). 345[+plates]pp..

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1938. The classic account of prison life on Devil's Island and escape to freedom.. 14th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/DJ Good (price clipped). Large Octavo.

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 .