THE COTTON PICKERS
by Traven, B
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Robert Hale, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first edition in English, translated from the German by Eleanor Brockett. The author's first book. Set in the 1920s in Mexico, it tells the story of Gerald Gales, who drifts in and out of jobs - on a cotton plantation, an oil field, in a pastry shop, and on a ranch - exposing the dangerous exploitation at each station and fomenting workers' rights along the way. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt tites. Tiny bump to the bottom corner of the front board. The dust jacket is a trifle edgeworn, with some mild offsetting from old cellophane tape repairs to the verso; otherwise very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73382
- Title
- THE COTTON PICKERS
- Author
- Traven, B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Robert Hale
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Literature, Mexico
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...