Buy this book on-line SEATON, GEORGE JOHN: : SCARS ARE MY PASSPORTLONDON.HUTCHINSON,1951. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG++.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to protected dw/dj.Bright,matt,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with red+white lettering; with some minimal shelf-wear,with some inevitable bumping, chipping,rubbing and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present to incur any loss.Top+fore-edges obviously but slightly aged/toned with minimal sporadic foxing/spotting to top edges,fore-edges similarly but much less affected,but all, generally bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate grey+white prison camp to front endpapers and Isles of Salvation (includes Devil's Island) map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-256pp [paginated] includes a foreword by Cyril Kersh of 'The People', chapters XIX(19),a separate chapter at end of subject's hopes for the future,24 b/w contemporary scenic and auto+biographical photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,4 b/w maps (includes endpapers),an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,subject's b/w portrait photographic frntis,title page,and dedication.
An account of a Mayfair playboy's twenty years in the infamous penal colony of French Guiana - dread Devil's Island forms part of it - a strangely terrifying story.
It is the history of a wealthy young socialite, with relatives among the British peerage,who was brought up in an atmosphere of luxurious ease and pampered pleasure.Then,when his income ceased,he went to France and turned thief.He was arrested and sent to the jungle hells of French Guiana for life.He was then twenty- five years old.
For twenty years he was one of the living dead in the worst prison in the world,bullied,beaten and starved by sadistic guards,surrounded by corruption,perversion and violent death.In time the effete playboy of Mayfair became as tough as the murderers around him,a party to their rackets,ever ready to reach for his knife. . . .
Yet somehow he survived - and escaped. It is not a pretty story.It is not for the squeamish.It will certainly shock you.But it is a book you must read.It is one of the social documents of our time.
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