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Traven, B.. THE COTTON PICKERS.. 1956 First edition, Robert Hale., 1956.
Price: US$9.02 + shipping
Description: 190pp. In the original black cloth. Very good indeed. Neat owner's signature.
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
B Traven. The Cotton Pickers. Robert Hale Ltd, 1956.
Price: US$15.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition 12mo, translated from the German by Eleanor Brockett, published in blue cloth with black to spine, no jacket. A Boots sticker to front, and an eyelet to top of spine, minimal wear else to boards, sound binding, a signature to fep; thereafter the condition is very good.
Seller: Anne Godfrey, Pwllheli, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.77 + shipping
Description: Good (+) in Very Good (-) Dust Jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover. Not price-clipped. Library bookplate from WH Smith lending library.
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Traven, B.. The Cotton-Pickers. Robert Hale, London, 1956.
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Extensive library markings. lacks fre-fep. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Traven, B.. The Cotton Pickers.. Robert Hale Limited, London, 1956.
Price: US$50.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 190pp. Or black cloth in jacket. Corners slightly bumped, bookseller stamp on front pastedown, spine slightly cocked. Jacket price-clipped with edge wear and chips at head and tail of spine, 2 closed tears (each approx 1"). Another realistic and outspoken novel of Mexico, depicting the human flotsam of a dozen nations drifting across a sunbaked country in their struggle for survival on casual labour, by this author who even today has his identity shrouded in mystery. Size: 8vo
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
TRAVEN, B.. The Cotton-Pickers.. Robert Hale London 1956, 1956.
Price: US$52.16 + shipping
Description: First edition, small 8vo, black/gilt to spine, 190pp, a clean and bright copy VG+ (upper front corner sl.bruised with upper edge of boards showing a faint bump, spine has sl.crease, endpapers v.faintly browned) in VG- d/w (sl.rubbed, sunned spine with some wear to extremities, sl wear ot edges and corners with some browning to rear of cover)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
TRAVEN,B.. The Cotton-Pickers. robert hale london 1956, 1956.
Price: US$57.37 + shipping
Description: first edition [us first was 13 years later] 190pp VG+ (black cloth,sl.bumps to extrems.,eps and content edges sl.foxed,sl.cocked) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear to extrems.,internal repairs to head/foot of spine,front flap creased)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Traven B.. The cotton-pickers. Robert Hale LTD, 1956.
Price: US$61.33 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO60146358: 1956. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 190 pages. Texte en anglais. Marker en page de titre. Quelques rousseurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
B. Traven. The Cotton Pickers. Robert Hale, 1956.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Cotton Pickers" by B. Traven - Robert Hale, London - 1956 first UK edition first printing - 191p, 18cmx15cm - condition: very good copy, scattered foxing, with first issue price clipped dus jacket in mylar cover. First published in Germany in 1926 but only now being republished here 43 years later, The Cotton-Pickers is a welcome short early novel to add to the small but prestigious body of the reclusive author's work. (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Night Visitor & Other Stories, The Bridge in the Jungle.) Traven is a brilliant storyteller who satisfies at the action/adventure level while directing his theme at the subconscious. His main preoccupation has been with freedom and this early along is shown up in post-Revolutionary Mexico.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
TRAVEN, B.. The Cotton Pickers.. Robert Hale, London., 1956.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Description: First English language edition. Translated by Eleanor Brockett. Precedes the U.S. edition by thirteen years. Octavo. 190 pages. A novel of casual labour, set in Mexico.Gilt titles on spine oxidising, otherwise fine in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly rubbed at the edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
B. Traven. The Cotton Pickers. Robert Hale, 1956.
Price: US$180.36 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: TRAVEN, B. The Cotton Pickers. London: Robert Hale. 1956. First English language edition. Trans. Eleanor Brockett. Originally published as The Wobbly in Germany in 1926, this is the elusive authors very first novel, written almost immediately after arriving in Mexico in 1924. A few years later, he would go on to write his most famous work, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and by the time Hale published his first work here, Traven was a best-seller across Europe, in spite of or perhaps because of his highly elusive personality; Traven was a pseudonym for an unknown but probably German novelist who probably moved to and lived in Mexico for much of his adult life. A near fine book with a very gentle lean else fine, in a very good price-clipped dust jacket designed by P. & G. Dawson, with a few small nicks to the corners and at the spine head and tail, 2cm tear to top edge of rear panel.
Seller: Deep Neutral Books, York, ENGLA, United Kingdom
Traven, B. The Cotton Pickers. Robert Hale, UK, 1956.
Price: US$186.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A UK first edition, first impression. The true first edition, preceding the US edition by thirteen years. Uncommon. Wrapper : The wrapper on this copy is bright, unfaded and complete. It is unclipped. The spine and front panel are bright and unfaded, showing light rubbing at the edges. The white back panel and the edges of the inside flaps are soiled. Book : The book is square and very tight. The boards are very bright and very clean. The corners are sharp. The pages are clean. No foxing. The closed page edges are a little dusty and show very occasional spotting. No dog-eared pages. The binding is solid - no cracked hinges. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. Paypal accepted.
Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Traven, B.; Eleanor Brockett (Translator). The Cotton-Pickers. Robert Hale Limited, London, 1956.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 190pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Black paper covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The spine is cocked, and the covers are just a tiny bit warped. The spine ends and corners of the covers are gently bumped. Light foxing to the text block edges. Tanned pages. The book is sturdy. With a dust jacket in very good condition. Just a little rubbed, soiled and age-toned. The edges are lightly chipped and have multiple small closed tears. The longest closed tear is 1 inch long. Treverton 205, Recknagel 439, Hagemann 117. Traven is one of the most mysterious figures of 20th-century literature. His true identity is still subject to much doubt. Although Traven claimed to be an American, his most famous works were first published in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. Nothing definitive is known about Traven's beginnings. Never the less, Traven's novels have been translated into more than 30 languages and they have sold more than 25 million copies.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. THE COTTON PICKERS.. LONDON: ROBERT HALE. 1956, 1956.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British edition. Near fine in attractive dust jacket which sadly lacks the rear panel & flap of jacket.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. The Cotton Pickers. Robert Hale Limited, London, 1956.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 190pp. [1]. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with a bit of foxing to edges, slight lean, bookseller's stamp on ffep. In price-clipped dust jacket with faint foxing and light edge wear, but no fading and overall better than Very Good+. A novel of about Mexican farm laborers.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. THE COTTON PICKERS. Robert Hale, London, 1956.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition in English, translated from the German by Eleanor Brockett. The author's first book. Set in the 1920s in Mexico, it tells the story of Gerald Gales, who drifts in and out of jobs - on a cotton plantation, an oil field, in a pastry shop, and on a ranch - exposing the dangerous exploitation at each station and fomenting workers' rights along the way. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt tites. Tiny bump to the bottom corner of the front board. The dust jacket is a trifle edgeworn, with some mild offsetting from old cellophane tape repairs to the verso; otherwise very good.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
TRAVEN, B.. The Cotton Pickers. Robert Hale, London, 1956.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo; black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 190pp, [1]. A hint of tanning to text edges, else Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, with some trivial edgewear and a bit of minute chipping at the crown; a bright, Very Good+ example. Traven's novel about daily life among day laborers in Mexico.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
B Traven. The Cotton Pickers. Robert Hale, London, 1956.
Price: US$296.30 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A first edition of this novel attributed to B Traven. B Traven was the pen name of a novelist whose real name, nationality and details of biography are unknown. Little is known of the author aside from the fact he spent many years in Mexico where this book is set. While there are manyy theories as to the true identity of B Traven, nothing has been conclusively proven. It is widely believed that Traven is Ret Marut, a German stage actor and anarchist, however Marut denied being Traven, and remains only the best guess. In a black cloth binding in the unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, in lovely condition. Boards are slightly cocked. Dustwrapper smart with some light chipping and very slight loss to the head of the spine. Handling marks to the wraps and spotting to the inside of the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean aside from the odd marginal spot. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Traven, B.. THE COTTON PICKERS. Robert Hale (1956), London, 1956.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, preceding the U.S. by 13 years. Originally published in Germany in 1926. Translated by Eleanor Brockett. His second book. Set in Mexico, as were so many of his books. Bright and fine with just a touch of spotting to page edges; in very good to near fine dust jacket with spine ends somewhat rubbed and internal foxing to flap folds. PRECEDES THE U.S. BY 13 YEARS
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
TRAVEN, B.. The Cotton Pickers. Robert Hale, London, 1956.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, preceding the American edition by 13 years. A little light foxing to the foredge else fine in a bright, near fine dustwrapper with some old internal paper repairs.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.