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B Traven. The Carreta. Chatto & Wndus, London, 1935.
Price: US$228.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition 8vo. green with white to spine, minimal wear, faded spine, sound binding if spread mid-book, occasional foxing to gutters, else very good internal condition.
Seller: Anne Godfrey, Pwllheli, United Kingdom
Traven, B.. The Carreta. Chatto & Windus, London, 1935.
Price: US$298.93 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Publisher's blue-green boards with gilt lettering to the spine. A bibliographical note: the first issue of this title had GILT SPINE LETTERING which was changed to white lettering for the second and later issues. Top edge blue. Tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece. A near fine (or better) copy foxed to the bottom edge. A very pleasing copy. No D/W. Translate from the German by Basil Creighton. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Traven, B.. THE CARRETA.. CHATTO & Windus., LONDON, 1935.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First English language edition. Close to near fine, lacking the rare dust jacket. Laid-in is the scarce publisher's prospectus- "Announcing- THE CARRETA By B. Traven", which is fine in 4" X 6" printed wrappers. (Stamp-size remnant from sticker on front end paper. Mild discoloration to green cloth spine, Gold titles are still bright! Hint of mild foxing at fore edge. ) Not published in the U. S. Until 1970. An uncommon title, made doubly so with original publisher's prospectus present.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
B. Traven. The Carreta. Chatto & Windus, 1935.
Price: US$572.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Carreta, B. Traven. 1935. London: Chatto & Windus. 8vo. First English edition, first printing. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and dark blue topstain, in the scarce pictorial dust jacket. The elusive authors first Jungle novel, Seldom have a man and a woman of simple social standing been made the central figures of so great a story [from the front panel]. A very good book though with evident water damage affecting the jacket front panel, front and rear board and front pastedown, less so to rear pastedown. Nevertheless, the binding remains tight and square, the topstain quite bright, and internally clean and bright with the frontis and tissue-guard intact. Intriguing ink inscription to the front endpaper offering a merry Christmas in German, signed Knut(?) and dated 1937. Dust jacket good, with the aforementioned water stain, and a few other small nicks, closed tears and corners rubbed, the spine a touch darkened, with the largest tear at the front panel top edge, about 2cm. A fairly respectable copy in the very scarce dust jacket.
Seller: Deep Neutral Books, York, ENGLA, United Kingdom
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in English. Translated from the German by Basil Creighton. The first of his "Jungle Novels," a six-book series published in the 1930's that focused on indigenous Mexicans forced to work clearing mahogany in the jungle - their rebellion lead to the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution. Bluish gray cloth lettered in gilt on spine; top edge gray; tipped-in frontispiece photograph of workers making camp. In first-issue dust jacket priced "7s6d" (later cheap edition was issued with price clipped and "3/6 net" added in red). Tiny crimp to one corner, thin streak of fading to spine, still near fine in dust jacket with shallow chipping and some tanning to spine but otherwise very good to near fine. HIS SCARCEST BOOK, ESPECIALLY SO IN DUST JACKET. TOGETHER WITH original German-language edition, DER KARREN. Blue cloth boards stamped in red on front and spine; top edge orange. First issue with period at end of last line p.48 and chapter number on p.96 inverted [Treverton 577]. Spine slightly dulled and small spot on front board otherwise very good to near fine. (German edition lacks dust jacket if issued in one.).
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.