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Dry guillotine. Fifteen years among the living dead. Prisoner No. 46635. Illustrations by a fellow prisoner. The text in this volume is based on the original translation from the French by Preston Rambo. With an Introduction by William La Varre.

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Dry guillotine. Fifteen years among the living dead. Prisoner No. 46635. Illustrations by a fellow prisoner. The text in this volume is based on the original translation from the French by Preston Rambo. With an Introduction by William La Varre.

by BELBENOIT, Rene

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New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1938. 8vo. 345, [1] pp. 11 sepia-toned plates. Black cloth, gilt lettrng, red ruling, w/ d.j. (vry slght chppng at uppr fore-edge bk cvr, vry slght wear), NF/VG copy from library of H.G. Hills, of former Vice President of Hills Brothers Coffee. First edition, 5th printing of this searing account of a prisoner’s 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 of the French penal colony of the time.

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Title
Dry guillotine. Fifteen years among the living dead. Prisoner No. 46635. Illustrations by a fellow prisoner. The text in this volume is based on the original translation from the French by Preston Rambo. With an Introduction by William La Varre.
Author
BELBENOIT, Rene
Book Condition
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Hardcover
Publisher
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.,
Place of Publication
New York:
Date Published
1938.
Keywords
French Guiana, Devil’s Island, Penalogy, Prisons, French History, Biography, Belbenoit, Caribbean, South America, criminology, Travel, Memoirs, Autobiography

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