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Traven's Death Ship, 1st US Ed. in dj

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Description

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Author: Traven, B.
Title: The Death Ship, The Story of an American Sailor
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1934
Description:

Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in dust jacket. First American Edition.

German author's first book to be published in English; originally published in England by Chatto & Windus, but this first American edition is the preferred version, with most of the text translated, expanded and revised by Traven himself.

Condition

Jacket spine toned, chipped along edges, closed tears along spine; corner of front free endpaper chipped, very good.

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Traven's Death Ship, 1st US Ed. in dj

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