Traven Bernard (4 results)

Hardcover. Leinen, 173 Seiten. Kleinoktavformat (ca. 17,5 x 11,6 cm). Einband etwas fleckig. Privater Namenszug auf dem Innendeckel, sonst gut erhalten. Dem Alter entsprechend guter Zustand. Gewicht: 300.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., 304 pages, original cloth gilt. A fine clean copy in original dustwrapper which has a few small closed nicks to some extremities but still a generally bright VG copy. The Rebellion of the Hanged is the fifth of Bernard Traven s six legendary Jungle Novels which together form an epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. Set in the slave-labour mahogany plantations of tropical Mexico in 1910, at the time of the uprising against the rule of Porfirio Díaz and the beginnings of revolution, Rebellion of the Hanged is a powerful and sombre tale of the tortures suffered by downtrodden indigenous peoples (in the text, referred to as Indians). But here it culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season a human feat of epic proportions. In addition to his great storytelling ability, Traven s work has a special resonance today because of recent uprisings in the Chiapas highlands of southern Mexico, the very locale for many of Traven's writings.

Calmann-Levy, 1974, 302 pp., broché, plis de lecture sur le dos, état satisfaisant.

8vo, orig. cloth gilt, very lightly dulled on spine, else a near fine copy. The Author's first book.