TYPED LETTER, SIGNED, TO RUTH FORD

by B. Traven, Hal Croves

$8,750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

Signed

Michoacan, Mexico: S.i., 1948. Item #4547 Original typed letter, signed, from B. Traven to Ruth Ford, writing under his Hal Croves alias. Composed on a single sheet of watermarked stationary from the Balneario spa-hotel in San Jose de Purua measuring 6.25 x 9 5/8 , dated January 20, 1948; 31 lines 202 words , signed Love, H.C. in pencil. Two old horizontal folds from mailing and a few faint creases smoothed out;

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