Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Traven, B.. THE BRIDGE IN THE JUNGLE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover lacking dust jacket, 7 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches, 286 pages. First American edition, as stated on copyright page. Binding has slight to very slight wear though spine is sun faded. Hinges sound and pages clean.
Seller: Collectors Cabinet, Teaneck, NJ, U.S.A.
B. Traven. The Bridge in the Jungle. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition stated, First printing. Clean, square, pages bright, no marks or writing. Just a little foxing to end pages/page edges. In a new facsimile dust jacket, price printed on flap $2.50 net. A very nice copy.
Seller: Ronz Firsts, Flippin, AR, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. THE BRIDGE IN THE JUNGLE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 286 pages. In Good plus condition with Fair dust jacket. Green and brown spine with black and off white text. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering and has moderate edgewear and shelfwear, chipping along edges, tape repair over tears on fore edges of both covers and spine edges. Price uncut: '$2.50'. Boards have mild edgewear and shelfwear. Textblock has age toning and foxing to many pages. Shelved under Front Counter. 1368246. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. The Bridge in the Jungle. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 286pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Original green cloth with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The covers are mildly stained along the joints. The rear cover has a two tiny dark stains, and a jagged 4 inch long, light, jagged scratch mark. The spine is sunned. There is a small soiled scuff mark on the bottom edge of the text block. The endsheets are darkened, and there is a contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet. Treverton 436, Hagemann 123, Recknagel 447, Howard 5c. Most of B. Traven's work was originally published in Germany. His first book was The Death Ship.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. The Bridge in the Jungle. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 286pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Original green cloth, gilt stamped title on the spine. Good. Spine and edges sunned. Minor wear to extremities. There are roughly 6 small stains on the covers, and there are a couple of small stains on the bottom edge of the text block. Front and rear endsheets are heavily darkened. Two small ink stamps on the rear endsheet. Previous owner's name written on the front free endsheet. Internally very good. No dust jacket. Treverton 436, Hagemann 123, Recknagel 447, Howard 5c.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Description: HB, Photo LASER COPY DJ, 1938, stated 1st US edition, 1ST Printing, PC, Green cloth Titled on Spine, CVR Spine SUNNED, Dates Match Title & Copyright page, Interior nice, tight Clean light FoX, Wear, NF/NF, 286 pgs, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2. Publisher Red Dye at pgs top edge as Required, Basis for the 1971 film starring John Huston as Howard, the same character for which his father won an Oscar for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and written and directed by Pancho Kohner, son of Paul Kohner (Huston's agent) and the Mexican actress Lupita Tovar (allegedly a friend of the reclusive Traven). Considered by some Traven's best book.
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. The Bridge In the Jungle. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard cover in dust jacket. Very scarce 1st edition, later issue with red cloth boards. The Book is very good with large streak of medium dark soiling to front board, very light shelf wear to edges of boards, corners and edges of pages, a bit dusty, paper aging with light yellowing to pages and early foxing to endpapers, otherwise the book is very fine with very light use and age, clean and tight interior. The Jacket is good + with piece missing from top of spine, large tear to front cover, heavy splitting to front fold, light splitting to back fold, shelf wear to edges with a few small chips missing, price clipped, a bit dirty, shows some aging, otherwise fine with excellent color, protected by mylar.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
TRAVEN, B.. The Bridge in the Jungle. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition, reddish-orange cloth binding (also issued in green cloth binding). A near fine copy in very good dust jacket; jacket with a 1" x 1.75" chip on lower edge of rear panel, and with light wear at the extremities.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. THE BRIDGE IN THE JUNGLE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$297.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ a bit browned and with several very small chips. Endpapers darkened; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. The Bridge in the Jungle. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first American edition, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1938. A near fine example of the book with faint glue browning to the gutters and the pastedowns. Dust jacket near fine with light rubbing to the edges and the folds and tiny chips to the spine ends.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
TRAVEN, B.. The Bridge in the Jungle.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 286 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. Some browning to hinges from binder's adhesive; otherwise a nice copy in a very nice jacket with the slightest of soiling and one tiny nick to the top of the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
B. Traven. The Bridge in the Jungle. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First American Edition (1938.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 286 pages. This was Carl Van Vechten's copy with his large bookplate (3 1/2" by 5") on front paste down. Old newspaper clippings are in a separate Savoy Hotel air mail envelope. The book is in good condition with discoloration in spine gutters. Interior is clean and tight. The dust jacket is in good condition with some shelf wear, one 1 3/4" vertical tear along bottom of spine and rubbing to edges. Still a nice copy. White green brown spine/brown white text. #031592 Size: 8vo
Seller: JERO BOOKS AND TEMPLET CO., SANTA MONICA, CA, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. THE BRIDGE IN THE JUNGLE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1938.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 286pp. Bound in green cloth lettered in gilt. A tale told by an American wanderer of a strange adventure in a jungle somewhere south of the Rio Grand and the source of the 1971 film starring John Huston, as Howard. A very good+ copy, in a very good dust jacket with mild wear.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.