René Belbenoit, First Edition (14 results)

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. 28 PAGES-29 CM X 41 CM-L'ASSASSIN DE L'ABBE COCHU, AMIENS, 3P, 10 PHOTOS-SA MERE ALLAIT MOURIR!, RENE REYMOND, 2P, 6 PHOTOS-L'ASSASSIN AVAIT OUBLIE D'ETEINDRE LE POSTE DE RADIO, MAURICE, 1P, 5 PHOTOS-MARCELINE GILLES POUSSA LA PORTE DU PETIT BISTROT, PAULINE DABENNE, 1P, 4 PHOTOS-EVADE DE CAYENNE HONNETE COMMERCANT M. RENE BELBENOIT ETAIT FIER D'AVOIR TUE A JAMAIS LE BAGNE., 2P, 7 PHOTOS, CARTE-SEUL UN MIRACLE POUVAIT RESSUSCITER MME MONDINO, DIDON, GAZAGUE, 1P, 3 PHOTOS-LE PILOTE UNIJAMBISTE DEVIENT LE PIRATE FANTOME, REINHARDT, 2P, 6 PHOTOS-LE VERRE BLANC PORTE BONHEUR A SYLVIA MONFORT, 2P, 7 PHOTOS-SIGNE: "UN AMI QUI VOUS VEUT DU BIEN", JEAN IRR, 2P, 7 PHOTOS-ENFIN, LA GUERISON POUR 5 MILLIONS DE FRANCAIS ATTEINTS D'HEMORROIDES, ROCHER, 1P, 5 PHOTOS-ILS N'ONT PAS PEUR DU NOM DES CLERANS!, HEGEDUS, 2P, 6 PHOTOS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 319 pp. This was a gift from Toronto Maple Leaf player Bobby Baun to the previous owner, with a personalized inscription by Baun and dated July 12th, 1967, just after the Leafs won their last Stanley Cup. Orange cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; yellow upper edge; headband; illustated with uncredited line drawings. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks, chips and short tears around the edges; along with Bobby Baun's gift inscription is the previous owner's name. The stories themselves are uncredited but, according to the dustjacket, the adventure stories are by Leonard Gribble, the escape stories by Bruce Sanders and the wild west stories by Lester Gregory. This collection of true stories contains: Down in the Drink - Holbroke Mahn; A Man and a Mountain - Edward Whymper; The Smile of Jesse James - Jesse Woodson James; Escape from Devil's Island - Rene Belbenoit; The Epic of Sutter's Mill - John Agustus Sutter; The Long Way Home - fleeing the Gestapo; The Pony Express Rides Through - Johnny Frey; Doctor Livingstone, I Presume - Stanley and Livingstone; The Laughing Privateer - Jean Lafitte; The Thousand Mile Western Derby - from Chadron, Nebraska to Chicago and Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show; They Almost Kidnapped the Kaiser - Wilhelm the Second; Mutiny to Order - Popjoy - Stormy Petrel; The Waters of Death - Johnstown Flood 1889; The Aerial Charioteers - Wilbur and Orville Wright; The Secret Links - Polish Underground and the Nazis; A Mountie's Christmas - Corporal Grant and O'Brien; Marooned in Africa - The Grosvenor; The Iron Horse Arrives - Pike's Peak and the Colorado Gold Rush; They Found the Lusitania - Captain Henry B. Russell; Lawdog's Bite - Wyatt Earp; The Cuckoo Leaves the Nest - Prison Camp Escape; The Race to the Pole - Captain Robert Falcon Scott; Newgate Won't Keep Jack - Jack Sheppard; Prince of the Pistoleers - James Butler Wild Bill Hickok; The Human Flotsoam - Captain Eddie Rickenbacker; Slaughter on the Little Big Horn - General George Armstrong Custer; and Twenty-one Notches on His Gun - Billy the Kid. Size: 8vo. Signed by Owner. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good/Fine. 1st Printing. Extremely light wear along the edges of the wraps and a corner crease on the front cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . B000738AMK Mass Market Paperback First Printing. Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition with slight clear magic tape repair to the base of the spine which is hardly noticeable. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. First Edition. nice book with dust jacket that has small tears along edges Price of $1.49 still on flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st, 1st. Boards are good with bumped corners, a little shelf wear, and fade to the spine. The front end flap is torn out. There are news clippings of Belbenoit glued to the front and back of half title page. Otherwise, very good inside with light handling. See photos for further details, description.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. red cloth. Map endpapers. Frontis portrait. Translated by Preston Rambo. 3rd printing. Jacket is worn and chipped with some small tears. End papers are darkened in the gutters.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. A Fellow Prisoner (illustrator). G+, no DJ. Presumed first American edition. Translation from the French by Preston Rambo. Light to moderate signs of wear to exterior, faded spine, binding solid and straight, interior clean and unmarked, tanned endpages. Lightly read, but a nice copy. edition not stated, presumed first American.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 345p. First edition and first printing. Hardcover and dust jacket in mylar. Good binding and cover. Wear and tear to DJ with some loss. Soiling to rear wrap. Slight sunning to spine. Slight cock to spine. Crack to front hinge on fep. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Handsomely bound in finely woven blue cloth stamped brightly in gold on the front boards and on the spine. Clean and tight throughout. With the signed presentation in dark blue ink: "For Mr. and Mrs. Bogardus with best Christmas wishes from Blair Niles"; also signed and dated by "Robert Niles Decembr 25 1940" which indicates most likely that this is an advance copy from the author. In a colorful, pictorial dust jacket with the original price of $2.50 at the top of the inside front flap. Chipping and small pieces missing at the top and bottom of the dust jacket spine ends and at the corners. Touch of damp stain along the verso of the spine, barely noticeable. Blair Niles (1880 - 1959) was an American novelist and travel writer. She was a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers. Blair Niles is a pen name of Mary Blair Rice, adopted from her late second husband's name, Robert Niles, Jr.[1] The first wife of oceanographer William Beebe, Niles also wrote under the name of Mary Blair Beebe. She lived among indigenous peoples in Mexico, South America, and Southeast Asia. In 1923 she published Casual Wanderings in Ecuador. Colombia: Land of Miracles followed in 1924, and Peruvian Pageant in 1937. She visited the notorious Devil's Island in 1926 and recorded the life of a prisoner there (René Belbenoit) in her 1928 best selling biography: Condemned to Devil's Island. The international sensation caused by this book led to prison reforms. Her 1931 book, Strange Brother, was a gay-themed novel (her only work in that genre) set in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance.[2] In 1944 Blair Niles was awarded the Gold medal of the Society of Woman Geographers. (Wikipedia) First Edition with F/R colophon and 1941 on the copyright page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Strange Brother, a novel by Blair Niles. First edition. Liveright Publishing indicated in 1937: ?As a general rule we have no marking on the copyright page of our publications to show our first edition, although on subsequent editions we print Second, Third, etc.? The copyright page for this copy of STRANGE BROTHER says only: Copyright 1931 by Blair Niles Manufactured in the United States. XX Book condition: good. The text block is in near fine condition with no tears, dog ears, or marks. Pages are age-toned as are the endpapers, which also are puckering near the gutters. The blue-cloth board is bowed along the long edge of the front cover (less with the back cover). The front and back cover has small white spots and discolorations. One corner is bumped, as is the spine (top and bottom). The title, author, and publisher are clearly visible on the spine. 7 ½ x 5 ½, 341 pages, 13 ounces XX This is a rare book for its time, especially with its depiction of a sympathetic gay male character and its exploration of Harlem's night life (not just the Cotton Club kind of nightspot, but also the jazz and blues clubs for Harlem's predominantly African American inhabitants). Multiple points-of-view are expressed through a gay artist (Mark), his African American friends, an open-minded white divorcee (June) who befriends Mark, an older suitor of June (Seth), various wealthy friends of June, a Sicilian boy (Rico), a flamboyant gay male (Nelly) arrested by an undercover cop, and others. Although the book follows some paths that would become mandatory for the next 30 years in literature, it is often free of the worst clichés about the LGBTQ world. XX Mary Blair Rice, better known by the pen name Blair Niles (1880?1959) was an American novelist and travel writer. She was a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers. The name Blair Niles was adopted in part from the surname of her late second husband, Robert Niles, Jr. The first wife of oceanographer William Beebe, Niles also wrote under the name of Mary Blair Beebe. She lived among indigenous peoples in Mexico, South America, and Southeast Asia. In 1923, she published Casual Wanderings in Ecuador. Colombia: Land of Miracles followed in 1924, and Peruvian Pageant in 1937. In these books she linked contemporary culture with the past by exploring history, traditions, and legends. She visited the notorious Devil's Island in 1926 and recorded the life of a prisoner there (René Belbenoit) in her 1928 best selling biography: Condemned to Devil's Island. The international sensation caused by this book led to prison reforms. Her 1931 book, Strange Brother, was a gay-themed novel (her only work in that genre) set in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Belbenoit. Octavo. 350 pp. First UK edition. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top of text block dyed red. Some wear to covers and a lean to the spine. In a split, torn and chipped jacket with tape repairs. Relates the authors escape from a French prison camp on Devil's Island in French Guiana. Inscribed by the author in French (see photos) at New York City and dated October 9-1938. Inscribed by Author(s).