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THE WAYWARD BUS
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is an imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California's back roads. Steinbeck dedicated this novel to Gwyndolyn Conger, his second (soon-to-be-ex) wife. The novel's epigraph is a passage from Everyman, with its archaic English intact; the quotation refers to the transitory nature of humanity. Although considered one of Steinbeck's weaker novels at the time of its original publication, The Wayward Bus was financially more successful than any of his previous works.
First printing of the first edition.
Brown/Red cloth boards with publisher's bus design imprinted on the front cover.
Bright gold lettering on the front cover and spine.
No dust jacket.
The cover is perfect, there are a couple of faint tiny scratches on the back cover.
On the spine, you can see faint black marks. I'm not sure what these are, but I just removed one of them by running an eraser over it, so they will come off.
Inside, it is pristine and unread. The spine is unbroken and there are no marks of any kind.
Note: If you are outside of North America, the quoted shipping price is for surface mail without tracking. For other options, please contact me.
Synopsis
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works, beginning with the six shown here, will be published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.Of this initial group of six titles, The Wayward Bus is in a new edition. An imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California's back roads. This allegorical novel of pilgrimage includes a new introduction by Gary Scharnhorst.Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Louise Aird
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27
- Title
- THE WAYWARD BUS
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First, 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 312
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Nobel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare; American Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Louise Aird
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About the Seller
Louise Aird
Biblio member since 2019
West Vancouver, British Columbia
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About Louise Aird
Private individual who has been collecting books for 40 years.
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