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First edition in English, first impression. Originally published as Der Schatz der Sierra Madre in 1927 and the basis for the 1948 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart. The publisher's leaflet comprises a four page publication and provides reviews of The Death-Ship and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Octavo. Original brown cloth, lettering to spine in gilt, top edge brown. Publisher's promotional leaflet loosely inserted. Housed in a custom brown morocco-backed folding box. book label to front pastedown. Browning to endpapers and minor foxing to edges; a near-fine copy. Spine of dust jacket tanned, some other light soiling and dampstaining; a very good and crisp example of a clipped jacket.

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.