(1929) · Indianapolis
by Halliburton, Richard
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1929). Early reprint. Very good+ in brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto measuring 9 1/8 by 6 inches with map end sheets. The cloth at the very edges of the head and heel of the spine are very slightly rubbed and there is a prior owner's name stamped on the first free end page. Without its issued dust jacket. 368 pages of text illustrated with a photographic frontispiece of the author and with 68 black and white plates. Two chapters in this book are dedicated to the horrible conditions of prisoners on in the prisons of French Guiana and Devil's Island. (Inventory #: TB28503)