TRAVEN, B.

£5,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. 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).

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