The Death-Ship: The Story of an American Sailor
1934réf. 52751London: Chatto and Windus 1934. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; brick red cloth stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; 312pp. Faint foxing to text edges and margins of preliminary leaves gentle sunning to spine with some light wear to spine ends; Very Good to Near Fine with the topstain bright and even lacking the dustjacket. First English language edition of Traven's first novel originally published as Das Totenschiff in Berlin in 1926. The novel was translated from the German by Eric Sutton for the UK edition though Traven himself would create a new translation for the 1934 Knopf edition. A novel set in the aftermath of World War I centered around a group of merchant seamen who lack citizenship money and papers; it is in equal part an adventure novel and a scathing indictment of abusive labor practices and authority. TREVERTON 31; AHEARN 652. Chatto and Windus unknown books
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