The night visitor and other stories

B. Traven

earliest edition we have, 1970 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020

A la orilla del viento — book 6

This book includes ten short stories. Three of them are long stories: The setting of "The Night Visitor" is a hacienda deep in the Mexican bush where a lonely American recreates in his imagination an eerie world of Indian folk legend. "The Cattle Drive" is a vivid description of a cowboy's trek with a thousand head of cattle across the Mexican plains; it has all the authenticity that Hollywood Westerns lack. "Macario...

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Editions we hold

Night Visitor edition · 2020 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374722586
The night visitor and other stories edition · 1993 · I.R. Dee · 238 pages
El visitante nocturno edition · 1991 · Fondo de Cultura Económica · 128 pages · 9789681636692
El Visitante Nocturno paperback · 1991 · Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico · 9789681645441
The night visitor and other stories edition · 1983 · Allison & Busby · 235 pages
Night Visitor hardcover · 1979 · Amereon Ltd · 9780891901600
The Night Visitor and Other Stories paperback · 1973 · Hill & Wang
The night visitor, and other stories edition · 1970 · Sphere · 256 pages

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