TRAVEN, B.. Government. Chatto & Windus, London, 1935.

Price: US$825.00 + shipping

Description: First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 355pp, [1]. Cloth mottled, with spine heavily sunned, though gilt still legible; topstain slightly dusty, with light scattered soil to pastedowns and endpapers, and wrinkling to a few terminal pages; Very Good. The edgeworn dustjacket is unclipped, heavily sunned at spine, with a bit of even toning and soil to panels, chipping to spine ends, and a stray ink mark to front panel; Very Good only. Traven's fourth book published in English, and the second novel in his Mahogany series. "It describes the system of debt-slavery, abuses, and corruption under the reign of Mexico's president Porfirio Diaz." The novel did not see publication in the U.S. until 1971, and remains one of Traven's scarcest English language titles in dustjacket. TREVERTON 662.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. Government. Chatto & Windus, London, 1935.

Price: US$1440.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Bound in publisher's original orange cloth faded through the dust jacket at the spine. The dust jacket is sun faded and spotted at the spine and rubbed at the extremities but otherwise in very good condition. First English language edition of one of Traven's scarcest books.

Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. GOVERNMENT.. CHATTO & WINDUS. LONDON 1935, 1935.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First English Language Edition. Near fine in a Vg.+ to Nf. dj. (Cloth at spine mildly age lightened. Small book shop sticker on rear pastedown. A few short edge tears at crest of spine) One of the rarest of Traven's works published in English.

Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.