Walls Have Mouths. A Record of Ten Years' Penal Servitude. With Prologue, Epilogue and Comments at the End of the Majority of the Chapters By Compton Mackenzie
de Wilfred MaCartney
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London England: Victor Gollancz, 1936. Hardcover. First Edition. Walls Have Mouths. Slight foxing to end inside coverfs and edge. Wear to top and bottom edge of spine and corners of cloth. Slight marks to cloth. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Prologue by Compton Mackenzie. Brixton and Wandsworth. Parkhurst Prison. The First Day. The First Week. The First Few Months. Food. Jailors, Discipline, Flogging. Letters and Visits. The Parkhurst Library. Book Addicts. The Dartmoor Mutiny. The Special Stage. Christmas Day. The Hospital. Staff and Patients. Escapes. Concerts. Chess. The Gramaphone. The News-Sheet and Football Coupons. Armistice Day and Silver Jubilee Day. Last Days. Notes on Prison Sex Life. First Impression of Freedom. Epilogue by Compton Mackenzie. 440 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.
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- Título
- Walls Have Mouths. A Record of Ten Years' Penal Servitude. With Prologue, Epilogue and Comments at the End of the Majority of the Chapters By Compton Mackenzie
- Autor
- Wilfred MaCartney
- Formato/Encuadernación
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- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Victor Gollancz
- Lugar de publicación
- London England
- Fecha de publicación
- 1936
- Palabras clave
- Non Fiction Walls Have Mouths Record Ten Years Servitude History Crime
- Catálogos del vendedor
- True Crime;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo
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