My Search for B Traven by Raskin, Jonah (1942- ) - 1980

249 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped title to cover in original jacket. First edition. John Raskin's story began when B Traven's widow invited him to come to Mexico to write her late husband's biography. In the course of the year he lived in her house he listened to her stories, read Traven's papers, and talked to those who knew him. But with each passing day the mystery deepened. Who was B Traven? which of the tantalizing identities Traven offer his biographer from the grave was the true one? Was he Ret Marut, the angry young German actor, anarchist and poet who arrested as a leader of the Munich Rebellion of 1919? Wase he T Torsvan, the Norwegian explorer, photographer and scientist, or Hal Croves, American literary agent and screenwriter? Condition: Two newspaper articles on Traven's death laid in. Jacket front cover lightly soiled else a very good to fine copy in a better than very good jacket.