B. Traven. The Bridge in the Jungle. Jonathan Cape, 1940.

Price: US$23.90 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1940. First Edition. 267 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with blue lettering. Binding remains firm. Pages are moderately tanned. Pen inscription to front free end paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Strong tanning to spine and edges. Book has a slight forward lean.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

Traven, B.. The Bridge in the Jungle. Jonathan Cape, London, 1940.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. First UK Edition. Ink name on front free endpaper and pastedown, else a very good hardback in a rubbed and edgeworn jacket that has some loss at the foot of the spine.

Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. THE BRIDGE IN THE JUNGLE: Collected Works. Jonathan Cape (1940), London, 1940.

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Description: First edition. Almost very good with scattered foxing, previous owner's name and offset; in dust jacket some chipping, rubbing, a few closed tears and soiling.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

TRAVEN B.. The Bridge in the Jungle.. 1940, 1940.

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Description: London: Jonathan Cape 1940. 8vo. Orig. cloth. In slightly chipped illust. dustjacket. (268pp.). 1st ed. Some foxing. Previous owner's name and rubber stamps on endpapers.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

Traven, B.. The Bridge in the Jungle. Jonathan Cape, London, 1940.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. First UK Edition. Very good hardback in a rubbed, edgeworn, and lightly chipped jacket that has a few small closed tears.

Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. The Bridge in the Jungle. Jonathan Cape, London, 1940.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: 256pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Tan cloth covered boards with a blue ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. The extremities are very lightly soiled and stained. Several small ripples in the cloth of the rear board. The spine is rolled, and the edges of the spine and covers are gently bumped. There is a small discolored area on the spine. The edges of the text block are foxed. The endsheets have a bookseller's small label, two ink stamps, and a previous owner's brief notation. The text block is just beginning to crack at p. 129. The dust jacket is in fair condition, with large losses from the top edge. The bottom edge has several small open tears. Brief numerical notation on the front inside flap. Mildly age-toned and rubbed. 'The Bridge in the Jungle' (Die Brucke im Dschungel) was originally written as a short story and was intended to be the title piece of Traven's short story collection. It was serialized in Vorwarts in 1927.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

B Traven (d. March 26, 1969). The Bridge in the Jungle. Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1940.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 267 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with blue lettering to spine in original jacket. In the B Traven collected works series. First British edition. The Bridge in the Jungle is a novel about the tragic death of Carlos, an 8 or 9 year old hyperactive Mexican boy, and the aftermath of his mother's overwhelming grief for him, sometime in the early 20th Century in a very poor village deep in the jungle. The narrator is an American man staying in the village while looking for alligator skins and bird feathers to sell in the U.S. He observes the little boy's brother, who works in the oil industry in Texas and has just returned for the weekend, give his little brother brand new shoes. Carlos is overjoyed to wear them since all the villagers but the pump master's wife wear threadbare rags for clothes. This is the little boy's first pair of shoes, much less shiny new American ones. While sitting outside in the village with his host, both waiting for an outdoor party, the narrator hears an ominous splash that is Carlos falling to his death off the treacherous bridge, a bridge that has no railings. The remainder of the novel depicts the grief of the young mother - a grief that reaches the suffocating proportions of Greek tragedy - and her villagers' genuine support. Like American authors Thomas Pynchon and J. D. Salinger, the reclusive Traven delighted in his personal anonymity and refused to grant interviews. Little is known about him; it is not even clear whether he was a native German or merely wrote in the language. It is clear from the descriptions in his novels that he lived and travelled extensively in Europe, the United States and Mexico. On the basis of their writing styles, it has been suggested that Traven was a pseudonym for the German anarchist Ret Marut, who published an underground magazine in the last years of the Weimar Republic. Another identity for Traven may have been "Traven's agent", the seemingly English Hal Croves who worked with director John Huston while he was shooting The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. In interviews about the movie, Humphrey Bogart's wife, Lauren Bacall, reported Huston had told her during filming that Croves was Traven, but Huston's wife at the time, Evelyn Keyes, later said Huston was skeptical of Croves. A dispute over a reduction in Croves' wages for his work on the film may have clouded the issue. Traven's widow, Rosa Elena Lujïn, supported speculations about both pseudonyms in an interview published in 1990 in The New York Times. The Times reporter notes that the irrelevance of formal identity is a central theme of The Death Ship. Traven's widow said that Traven had something like ten identities and "loved to tangle things up." The story notes that the identity of "Ret Marut" can be traced back to 1907, and that neither Traven's widow nor anyone else really knows who he was before that. Most evidence points to Traven as German, but wild conjectures have been made as to his parentage. Some have suggested he might be the illegitimate son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, or Otto Feige, son of a German pottery worker from Schwiebus, Prussia. [1] The Encyclop�dia Britannica states that he may have been born Berick Traven Torsvan in Chicago and that he grew up in Germany before settling in Mexico. The Penguin Encyclopedia, on the other hand, holds that he was born Albert Otto Max Frege in either Chicago or Poland. A biographical graphic novel on the life of Arthur Cravan has been published by Dark Horse Comics. Written by the publisher, Mike Richardson, and illustrated by Rick Geary, "Cravan" puts forth the idea that Cravan and Traven might be one and the same. Arthur Cravan was a Dadaist, a pugilist, and an all around larger-than-life personality who disappeared somewhere in Mexico around 1920. Cravan, like Traven, employed dozens of pseudonyms out of necessity or preference. Wikipedia Condition: Jacket price clipped, spine ends and corners lightly chipped and rubbed, else very good in a like jacket.

Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.