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Traven, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Alfred A. Knopf, 1935.

Price: US$55.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First American. Black cloth. Covers show minor rubbing, spine has a modest sunfade and light rubbing to gilt, one tiny tear at bottom of spine, thin crack to front hinge, previous owner bookplate, some fading to colored head. otherwise a very nice copy, clean and presentable, with a tight binding and clean pages.

Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

B. Traven. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Alfred A. Knopf, 1935.

Price: US$91.34 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1935. 2nd Printing. 366 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Noticeable cracking to front hinge causing board to be slightly loose. Binding throughout remains firm. Previous owner embossed stamp to front endpaper, with small pen inscription to front endpaper. Rough-cut pages are lightly tanned with occasional brown markings. More pronounced tanning to endpapers and pastedowns. Minor brown marks to fore edge. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light sunning & crushing to spine. Gilt lettering is darkened. Mild white markings with scratching overall. Noticeable dent to fore edge of front board. Book has a slight forward lean.

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

Traven, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. ALFRED A. KNOPF 1935 AUGUST, CLEVELAND & NY, 1935.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: General wear:faded cover and spine, soiled boards, small bookplate, foxing, previous owner marking on title page DATE PUBLISHED: 1935 AUGUST EDITION: SECOND PRINTIN 366

Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

Traven, B. (pseudonym). THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1935.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-366 [367-370: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], original black cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, running Borzoi stamped in blind on rear panel, top edge stained maroon, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First U.S. edition. Traven's most famous novel and his second book published in America. This edition was prepared from Traven's English-language manuscript, but supposedly was heavily rewritten by Knopf's editorial staff. Basis for the classic film starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston. Rub spot to top front edge of cloth, otherwise a very good to nearly fine copy. No dust jacket. (#154606)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1935.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing. Very Good with light soiling to cloth, rubbing to gilt stamping on spine, pages toned, hinge slightly exposed at preliminary blank, else a rather nice copy.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1935.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing. Very Good with light rubbing to cloth at corners and spine ends, rubbing to gilt stamping on spine, bottom corners lacking from half-title and the preceding blank page, else a rather nice copy.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE - THE WARNER BROS. FILE COPY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1935.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: Second Printing of the American Edition, following the first by two months. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with title stamped in gilt on spine and in blind on front cover; brown topstain; dustjacket; [10],366,[4]pp. The Warner Bros. file copy, rubber-stamped "IMPORTANT! Return To Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. Story Dept." on front endpaper. Light wear and three tiny tears to cloth at spine ends, faint paper-clip impression to upper margin of a center gathering, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), worn and gently spine-sunned, with losses to spine ends, corners, and lower edge of front panel, encroaching on the first four letters of the author's name; a few tears and attendant creases, with some faint foxing on verso; just Very Good. Traven's second book translated into English, and the first appearance of Traven's own translation, which ran nearly 80 pages longer than the UK edition by Chatto & Windus. Set it Mexico, it is a story of gold, greed, and the best and worst in human nature. A distinguished copy of the author''s best-known work, retained by the studio which produced John Huston's Oscar-winning 1948 film noir which catapulted it to international fame. While not marked as such, this copy comes from the collection of Traven's bibliographer, Edward N. Treverton. Treverton 262; Hagemann 56; The Dark Page, Vol.1, pp.324-325.

Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1935.

Price: US$2450.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Nearly fine in a slightly chipped price clipped dust wrapper. A highly collectible copy of a brilliant proletariat novel brilliantly filmed by John Huston.

Seller: Michael Grano, Seaside, OR, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1935.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in blind on the upper board and lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with light rubbing to the head of the spine. In a Very Good dust jacket, which is lightly edge-worn and lightly rubbed, with a short tear at the foot of the both flap folds. A gripping novel of three gold prospectors who venture into the Sierra Madre mountains, which served as the basis for the 1948 film starring Humphrey Bogart.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1935.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing. A wonderful copy. This sophisticated dustjacket has NO chips or tears. This First Issue dustjacket has the printed price present. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight, with light wear to the edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Knopf, 1935.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-366 [367-370: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], original black cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, running Borzoi stamped in blind on rear panel, top edge stained maroon, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First U.S. edition. Traven's most famous novel and his second book published in America. This edition was prepared from Traven's English-language manuscript, but supposedly was heavily rewritten by Knopf's editorial staff. A fine copy in near fine pictorial dust jacket (designed by Wetherill) with the original price of $2.50 on the front flap. Unlike most other copies on the market, this jacket has NO restoration. Housed in a custom-made clamshell case.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

TRAVEN, B. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. Alfred A. Knopf, 1935., New York, 1935.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Description: First U. S. edition. 8vo. Originally published in Germany. using the title "Der Schatz Der Sierra Madre." Set in Mexico in the 1920s, two hard-luck Americans, Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, who've been cheated out of their wages from a construction job in Tampico, team up with Howard, a wise old prospector, on a quest for gold in the remote Sierra Madre mountains. "Gold is a very devilish sort of thing, believe me, boys. In the first place, it changes your character entirely. When you have it your soul is no longer the same as it was before. No getting away from that. You may have so much piled up that you can't carry it away; but, bet your blessed paradise, the more you have, the more you want to add, to make it just that much more. Like sitting at roulette. Just one more turn. So it goes on and on and on. You cease to distinguish between right and wrong. You can no longer see clearly what is good and what is bad. You lose your judgment. That's what it is.” After fighting off Mexican bandits on the train to Durango, the trio arrives at their destination and eventually discovers a lode of gold in the surrounding mountains. However, Dobbs and Curtin soon become consumed by greed and suspicious of each other’s intentions. They briefly unite with Howard in a plot to kill Cody, a fellow fortune seeker who has arrived in their camp. Shortly thereafter, though, the bandits reappear, and Cody dies in the ensuing gun battle. Meanwhile, Howard saves the life of a local Indian child and returns to the child’s village to be honored. In his absence, the increasingly paranoid Dobbs shoots Curtin. Although Curtin survives and manages to escape, Dobbs later dies in an attack by the bandits, who mistake the bags of gold dust on his burros as sand and dispose of the bags on the outskirts of town. As Howard and Curtin attempt to retrieve the bags, the gold blows away into the desert. The basis for the 1948 Warner Brothers film, directed by John Huston, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Tim Holt. The movie was nominated for four awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor (Walter Huston), and won all but Best Picture. Former owner's neat bookplate on front pastedown sheet and a name and date at top of front free fly leaf, else a fine, bright, internally clean copy in dust jacket with some light professional restoration to the extremities by a master paper conservator. Housed in a leatherette clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine.

Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.

Traven, B.. The Treasure of Sierra Madre. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1935.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First printing. A beautiful copy. This original dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges. This First Issue dustjacket has the $2.50 printed price present. The book is great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a superb copy bound in the original publisher's black cloth in collector's condition. We buy Traven First Editions.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.