Berlin: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1926. First edition of his first book. Published eight years before the First edition in English. Sub-titled "The Story of and American Sailor." The first issue with first letter in each chapter in gray and page 98 misprinted as 89. Spine ends slightly frayed but complete, spine..... Item #55253 More
![DER BUSCH [The Bush]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/54075.jpg?v=1551394843)
Berlin: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1928. First edition. First issue with all signature numbers present [Treverton 984]. German text. His fourth book and first book of short stories. 16mo orange cloth boards lettered in black on front and spine; top edge black. Spine ends a little worn with touch of soiling and..... Item #54075 More
![DER DRITTE GAST und Andere Erzahlungen [The Third Guest and Other Stories]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/53981.jpg?v=1561332498)
Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt, 1958. First edition by this publisher. Published simultaneously in Frankfurt and Zurich [Treverton 1007]. German text. Flexible yellow cloth stamped in black on front and spine. Fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with few light marks to spine and minor aging and..... Item #53981 More
![DER KARREN [The Carreta]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/55088.jpg?v=1549070290)
Berlin: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1931. True first edition of the first in his series of "Jungle Novels." Text in German. 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]..... Item #55088 More
![DER SCHATZ DER SIERRA MADRE. [The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]. B. Traven](/images/noimage-req.png)
Berlin: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1927. True first edition of Traven's most famous work. Second issue with last word in first line p.18 "badeten" and "S" chapter head correctly positioned [Treverton 244]. Made into the 1948 John Huston movie "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart. Small quarto (6.75 x...... Item #53832 More
![DER WOBBLY [The Cotton Pickers]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/54141.jpg?v=1561332503)
Berlin: Buchmeister-Verlag, 1926. First edition of his second book. Second state with page number "180" in smaller type [Treverton 179(2)]. Small quarto orange cloth boards stamped in black on front and spine; top edge stain dark gray (or black). Very good to near fine with covers lightly soiled and top..... Item #54141 More
Munchen: Selbstverlag, 1917-21. First edition. Eight volumes in original wraps spanning the first through fourth years of the anarchist journal. Includes issue number 2 and issue numbers 4 through 22. "The Brick Burner" was a self-published and solely authored political periodical edited under the name Ret Marut by the mysterious..... Item #54291 More
![DIE TROZA [Trozas]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/54536.jpg?v=1549070272)
Zurich and Prague: Buchergilde Gutenberg, (1936). First edition. First issue: p.108:3 ending with "zu" and incorrect font for subchaper 5 p.146 [Treverton 745]. Text in German. The fourth of his six Jungle Novels. Light blue cloth stamped in red on front and spine; page top edge red. Very good or..... Item #54536 More
![DIE WEISS ROSE [The White Rose]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/54540.jpg?v=1549070273)
Berlin: Buchergilde Gutenberg, (1929). First edition. Treverton's first issue with "DISTURP" in English line p.61 and initial "S" p.109 inverted. Frankly, the only reason we can tell the "S" is inverted is we have two copies -- the first issue and the second (with "DISTURB" and "S" the right way..... Item #54540 More
![EIN GENERAL KOMMT AUS DEM DSCHUNGEL [The General from the Jungle]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/54068.jpg?v=1549070270)
Amsterdam: Allert De Lange, 1940. Scarce first edition in German [Treverton 877] of his sixth and final "Jungle Novel." Preceded only by a Swedish-language edition published in Stockholm in 1939. First printing with 416 pages. Not published in the UK until 1954 nor the U.S. until 1972. Tan, rough cloth..... Item #54068 More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1893. First American edition. Translated by Mary Herms. Von Moltke was a German Field Marshall who, in 1857, was given the position Chief of the Prussian General Staff, a position he held for the next 30 years. He made changes to the strategic and tactical..... Item #49729 More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1927). First American edition. His first book to be translated into English. Translated by Lambert Armour Shears. Klaus was the son of Thomas Mann. An opponent of fascism, he was one of the first German writers to go into exile. He went on to become..... Item #33589 More
Munich, West Germany: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1989. First edition. Presentation copy "for/Allen Mears/best (indecipherable)/Botho Strauss/Berlin 11.3.90." Book about Jeffers, in paperwraps. As new. Item #55608 More
![FRUCHTE DES ZORNS [Grapes of Wrath]. John Steinbeck](/pictures/thumb/51354.jpg?v=1547845654)
Stuttgarter: Duetscher Bucherbund, no-date. German translation; later printing, as the first was published in Zurich in 1940. Very good with rubbing along the edge of the cover, light soiling to the back board, and a tiny puncture in the cloth binding the size of a pen point on the front..... Item #51354 More
(Wiesbaden): [1966]. First German edition of his most famous book. A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences. Light offset on endpapers, otherwise fine in white, printed dust jacket with a few tiny chips and lightly soiled. Item #48850 More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1857. First edition. Howes H-178. Including his services as Chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the War of the Revolution. 1716 to 1790. Frontispiece of author's home with tissue. About very good in decorative dark brown boards with gilt lettering on spine, rear..... Item #52586 More
Zurich: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1950. First edition of his last book. Second issue with translator's name on verso of title page [Treverton 927(2)]. German text. Made into a 1960 supernatural drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldon -- the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign..... Item #54053 More
![SONNEN-SCHOPFUNG: Indianische Legende; [The Creation of the Sun and the Moon]. B. Traven](/pictures/thumb/54636.jpg?v=1561339496)
(Zurich/Prague: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1936). First edition in German, preceded by a Czech edition in 1934. First issue with 5 lines of text below number on colophon page [Treverton 868]. A revised and expanded version of an Indian creation myth originally appearing in DER KARREN [The Carreta]; first separate edition thus..... Item #54636 More