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The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Brick Red Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good First Edition, First Issue. First Printing. First Issue, With Blind-Stamp of Bus on Front Cover, A Very Clean and Square Copy, DJ has edgewear and small chips at crown of spine and top front tip. There is a 1.5" Closed Tear at Spine Crown. Not Price-Clipped ($2.75), No Browning To Panels, Page Very Clean. Mylar-jacket.
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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- EGR books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3103
- Title
- The Wayward Bus
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 312
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; John Steinbeck;
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