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B. Traven. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Chatto & Windus, 1934.
Price: US$60.31 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: (C1+) Book description: Fair with wear to spine ends and corners; light marks to boards and spine; dust/darkening to closed page edges; abrasions and marks to pastedowns (caused by removal of labels?); small sticker shadow/light marks to blank endpapers; contents bright and unmarked. Lacking dustjacket. U.K. First Edition.C1
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
B. Traven .. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.. Chatto & Windus, London, UK, 1934.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition UK [1934), First Printing, unstated in a accordance with Chatto & Windus' customary practice. The first English-language edition. Good only: shows considerable use: mild wear most of the extremities but heavier wear to the lower front corrner tip, which has worn through to expose the underlying board and to the head and heel of the backstrip; rubbing and a small area faint soiling to the lower front panel; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; two pages are creased at the lower corner; the binding leans but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A heavily used copy, but structurally sound and tightly bound, showing moderate wear and several other imperfections. This may be a REMAINDER: there is a small dark stain - or perhaps intentional mark - at the bottom edge near the backstrip. NOT a Book-Club or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7.75 x 5.25 x 1.25 inches). 295 pages. Language: English. Weight: 13.5 ounces. Brown cloth over boards with gilt titles at the backstrip. First published in German in 1927. Hardback: Lacks DJ. B. Traven was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all shrouded in mystery and subject to dispute. It is howerver certain that Traven' lived for years in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is set—including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927), the film adaptation of which won three Academy Awards in 1948. Published first in German in 1927 as Der Schatz der Sierra Madre. The main characters are a group of American adventurers and gold-seekers who find a heap of gold all right - and a heap of trouble with it. First Edition UK [1934), First Printing, unstated in a accordance with Chatto & Windus' customary practice. . First published in German in 1927.
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$224.57 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first English-language edition. 8vo. 295pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt decoration. Cloth a little spotted and with just a trace of wear to several extremities. A touch of spotting to the endpapers and browning to a blank preliminary and concluding leaf, and the publisher's top edge stain just a little patchy. Really quite a nice, crisp copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. The basis for John Huston's magnificent Bogart movie, this Creighton translation precedes Traven's own translation which he produced for the American issue (Knopf, 1935 - the author is on record stating his preference for this version).
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [viii],295,[1]pp. Forward lean, light surface wear to cloth, with modest wear to extremities (particularly upper front board), faint foxing to endpapers, and some light soil to upper edge of textblock; Very Good, lacking the dustjacket. The enigmatic author's best-known work, basis for John Huston's Oscar-winning film noir (1948), starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Tim Holt. Traven was unhappy enough with Creighton's translation from the German that he undertook the task himself for the American edition, published by Knopf in 1935. TREVERTON 260; RECKNAGEL 440; The Dark Page, Vol.1, pp.324-325.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
TRAVEN, B. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. Chatto & Windus, London, 1934.
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British edition and the first edition in English. Original tan cloth lettered and blocked gilt on spine, top edges stained brown, lower edges untrimmed. 8vo (19.5 x 13 cms). 295pp. Lacks d/w. A near fine copy in unfaded cloth, free from inscriptions or other markings.
Seller: Owen & Barlow Rare Books, Welshpool, United Kingdom
Traven, B.. THE DEATH-SHIP: The Story of an American Sailor. Chatto & Windus, London, 1934.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in English. His first book and, arguably, his most famous, after THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. Translated from the German by Eric Sutton. Staining to rear boards otherwise very good.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A nice copy with some light edge-wear. Light rubbing to upper corners. Slight lean to spine. Small 1/2" chip to crown. Small sticker to front pastedown.
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A nice copy with some light edge-wear. Light rubbing to upper corners. Slight lean to spine. Small 1/2" chip to crown. Small sticker to front pastedown.
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Chatto & Windus, London, 1934.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first English edition, translated from the German by Basil Creighton, a translation which the author said he actually preferred to his own for the (later) U.S. edition. 1934 date to title page, no later dates nor any mention of later printings to copyright page. Gilt titles bright to spine, no visible corner rub. "Very good" jacket with minor chipping and tears along top and bottom edges is not price-clipped, still priced "7s. 6d. net" to bottom of front flap. Cinnamon topstain is very nice. Curiously, a Previous Owner (we surmise) has written her name in pen upside down to bottom of the blank dust jacket rear panel: "Melitza Korelius Mozart / H.M.V." Famously filmed for Warner Bros. in 1948 by John Huston with Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, and of course the immortal Alfonso Bedoya. 295 pp. Reduced from $2,250.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.. Chatto & Windus Ltd, London, 1934.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English Edition, First Impression. A Very Good or better copy in rich chocolate brown linen cloth, top edge stained dark brown, bottom edge untrimmed. Lacking the dustwrapper. Slightly cocked, rubbing to spine ends, mostly at crown. Else a clean, sound copy, without writing or other problems to the text or endpapers. Translated by Basil Creighton. English only. 295pp. Q19834
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
B. Traven. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Chatto and Windus, London, 1934.
Price: US$1443.67 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First printing of the first edition in English. Uninscribed. Cinnamon brown cloth is clean and bright. Dust jacket, with illustration by John D. Evans, is unclipped, spine badly browned. A 3cm tear along the front flap fold has no loss.
Seller: Vortex Books, Teddington, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 295p octavo a fine copy in a price clipped dust jacket foxing along the edges. Price of 3/6 on the spine of the jacket. The sheets are the first UK sheets bound into green cloth stamped Chatto & Windus. The jacket has a price of 3/6 on the spine, and not in Treverton Bibliography.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
TRAVEN, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Chatto and Windus, London, 1934.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 295pp. Precedes the US edition by one year. A crisp, clean copy, very near fine, with the spine just a tinge cocked, in a very good, slightly darkened dust jacket, more darkened on the spine, with some creasing, rubbing, and shallow chipping to extremities.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Traven, B. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. London Chatto & Windus, 1934.
Price: US$2610.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in English. Translated from the original Der Schatz der Sierra Madre by Basil Creighton. Some age toning to the prelims and a spot or two of foxing to the page edges. Top edge dyed brown, bottom edge untrimmed. Slight lean to the spine. Bookseller's label to the bottom of the rear end paper. First Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Bound in crisp tan cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Some wear to the header and footer with darkening to the spine.
Seller: Quagga Books ABA ; ILAB, Cape Town, South Africa
Traven, B. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. London Chatto & Windus, 1934.
Price: US$2610.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in English. Translated from the original Der Schatz der Sierra Madre' by Basil Creighton. Some age toning to the prelims and a spot or two of foxing to the page edges. Top edge dyed brown, bottom edge untrimmed. Slight lean to the spine. Booksellers label to the bottom of the rear end paper. A very good copy. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Very good. Some wear to the head and foot of and darkening to the spine. Binding: Hardcover. Bound in crisp tan cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine.
Seller: Quagga Books ABA ; ILAB, Cape Town, South Africa
TRAVEN, B; Creighton, Basil trans. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Chatto & Windus, London, 1934.
Price: US$2630.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Corners with an inward turn; spine slightly cocked; some soil to fore-edge; head and heel of spine bumped; small and tidy gift inscription to top edge of front free endpaper in black ink; pencil note to rear pastedown. Dust-jacket with paper overall browning and dust soil; spine darkened, wear to extremities and light wear along edges of spine and hinges of flaps; patches of brown soil to front panel, spine, edges and along edge of spine rear panel; number to spine in faded ballpoint; a couple of light creases to rear panel.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
TRAVEN, B. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. Chatto & Windus, 1934., London, 1934.
Price: US$3250.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition. 8vo.Precedes the U. S. edition by one year. The front dust jacket flap says this title has already been published in five different languages. Originally published in Germany, this is the first English language edition. Signed at the top of the front free fly leaf "From Basil / Christmas 1934," and at the top of the dust jacket's front cover as "Creighton." This refers to Basil Creighton the translator from the original "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. Very good copy in a moderately used dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, lightly rubbed along front spine fold and front flap fold with tiny nicks and closed tears to the extremities.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Traven, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Chatto & Windus, London, 1934.
Price: US$4499.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine first U. K. Edition, which preceds the U. S. Edition. Spine ends and corners gently softened. Slight offset to endpages. Light foxing to some pages. The unclipped original jacket in mylar has some restoration to spine ends and corners and price of 7s 6d. A square tight unmarked copy housed in a fine custom clamshell case. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
TRAVEN, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1934, 1934.
Price: US$6416.33 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, first impression, this copy with the publisher's compliments slip tipped-in to the front pastedown and with a typescript note added from the translator in the month of publication: "with Mr. Basil Creighton's Compliments 21.9.34". This book was originally published as Der Schatz der Sierra Madre in 1927. Creighton (1886-1989) translated a number of Traven's works and many significant works of German literature into English, including Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, Alma Mahler's Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters, and Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel. Traven "is probably the most mysterious and baffling of all modern writers: a man who has seemingly courted obscurity as another might court fame and notoriety, courted oblivion with an almost pathological intensity" (Hagemann, p. 37). Hagemann 53. Octavo. Original dark orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge orange, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket by John D. Evans. Spine cocked, trivial bumps to edges, slight wear to lower edges, contents lightly foxed; jacket a touch soiled and foxed, spine panel toned, a few chips and short closed tears, edges rubbed, unclipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
TRAVEN, B.. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1934, 1934.
Price: US$7699.59 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, first impression. Originally published as Der Schatz der Sierra Madre in 1927 and the basis for the 1948 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart. The publisher's leaflet comprises a four page publication and provides reviews of The Death-Ship and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Octavo. Original brown cloth, lettering to spine in gilt, top edge brown. Publisher's promotional leaflet loosely inserted. Housed in a custom brown morocco-backed folding box. book label to front pastedown. Browning to endpapers and minor foxing to edges; a near-fine copy. Spine of dust jacket tanned, some other light soiling and dampstaining; a very good and crisp example of a clipped jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom