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The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A smart, first edition copy of this novel by renowned American author John Steinbeck, in original cloth binding. Presenting The Wayward Bus, a novel by Nobel Prize-winning American author John Steinbeck. His other popular novels include The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. This novel tells the story of married couple Juan and Alice, who work and live in California's Salinas Valley, a popular setting of Steinbeck novels. Both characters, as well as the other characters they encounter in the novel, are deeply flawed, and Steinbeck spends the majority of the book exploring these flaws as well as the transitory nature of humanity. This novel was adapted into a black-and-white film in 1957 starring Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins, Dan Dailey, and Rick Jason. This copy is the first edition and is presented in original cloth binding. This copy also came from the library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire, the previous home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (1902-1968). She was an English socialite and through her mother was the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
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
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 795J28
- Title
- The Wayward Bus
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 8.5" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- john steinbeck wayward bus american grapes of wrath wayward bus
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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