Description
First edition of General From The Jungle by B. Traven. Octavo, 256, [1]. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. “First Published 1954” statement on copyright page. Booksellers sticker on front endpaper. Clean text. In publisher’s price clipped dust jacket, bright illustrations, some light rubbing to back panel, archival repair to verso of spine. (Treverton, 881) An attractive copy.
Comments: This book is the final book in Traven’s Mahogany Series (The Jungle Novels), originally completed in 1937 but rejected by the publisher. This is the first English language edition, with the first edition being published in Swedish by Alex Holstrom in 1939.