THE DEATH-SHIP: THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN SAILOR

by B. Traven, Eric Sutton, novel, translation

$1,750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

London: Chatto & Windus, 1934. First U.K. Edition. The author's first novel, originally written in English in 1923-24, translated by Traven into German and published as Das Totenschiff by Büchergilde Gutenberg in 1926. It charts the story of an American sailor, stateless and peniless because he has lost his passport, who is harassed by police and hounded across Europe until he finds an 'illegal' job shoveling coal

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