Traven Bern (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Schutzumschlag: Emil Zbinden, Bern (illustrator). 1st Edition. "Copyright, 1936, by B. Traven, Tamaulipas (Mexiko)" First state of the first edition: still missing the word "in" on third line of page 108 (uncorrected.) Original photographic dust jacket moderately and evenly age-toned, as expected. Small closed tears to top corners of DJ front panel. Blue cloth binding near fine; we downgrade simply because the text block is not tight enough to close itself, and in fact will lie open to pp 144-145, which appears to be the beginning of the printer's 10th signature. (A "signature" is a printer's gathering of leaves; this book is NOT signed by the author.) Interior unmarked, save that (covered by the jacket front flap) the front pastedown bears the small, medical-themed Ex-Libris bookplate of Dr. Anny Schutz Merkel. Orange topstain. Traven, of course (his real name may have been Ret Marut or Otto Feige), is best known as the reclusive anti-capitalist author of "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1927), filmed by John Huston with Humphrey Bogart in 1948. "Die Troza" is the fourth of his six "jungle novels" or "mahogany novels," depicting the lives of Mexican Indians in the jungle state of Chiapas, forced in the early 20th century to work under inhuman conditions at clearing mahogany in labor camps (monterias), eventually resulting in the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution -- the author always having favored tales of the oppressed or exploited lumpenproletariat. (Der gesamte Text dieses Buches ist in deutscher Sprache.) 255 pp. Here reduced from $410.

Paperback. Condition: Used - Good.