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The first English edition, translated from the German by Basil Creighton, a translation which the author said he actually preferred to his own for the (later) U.S. edition. 1934 date to title page, no later dates nor any mention of later printings to copyright page. Gilt titles bright to spine, no visible corner rub. "Very good" jacket with minor chipping and tears along top and bottom edges is not price-clipped, still priced "7s. 6d. net" to bottom of front flap. Cinnamon topstain is very nice. Curiously, a Previous Owner (we surmise) has written her name in pen upside down to bottom of the blank dust jacket rear panel: "Melitza Korelius Mozart / H.M.V." Famously filmed for Warner Bros. in 1948 by John Huston with Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, and of course the immortal Alfonso Bedoya. 295 pp. Reduced from $2,250.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a novel by B. Traven, originally published in 1927, which tells the story of three down-and-out men who, seeking gold, face both perils and moral dilemmas in the Sierra Madre mountains.