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THE DEATH-SHIP: THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN SAILOR
19344347London: 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 in the hold of a steamer bound for destruction" from the AK Press edition. Treverton 31. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; russet cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brick red topstain; dustjacket; viii312pp. Hint of sunning to spine else a fresh Fine copy with topstain unfaded and the gilt titling bright and unrubbed. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 7s. 6d. net showing some modest rubbing light dust-soil with some wear to spine ends and upper front panel a faint vertical fold to front panel and a series of tiny tears discreetly mended with Japanese tissue on verso; faint 25p. price erased from front flap; Very Good or better this example without the usual heavy toning to the spine panel. Chatto & Windus unknown
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