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The Wayward Bus
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine/about Fine
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First edition. Fine/about Fine. A Fine copy of the book in just about Fine dust jacket. The book with the correct green top-stain, copyright information and blindstamped bus on the front cover. This copy with a green silk ribbon bookmark (attached behind the text-block), which we haven't seen before. Dust jacket with the correct $2.75 price on the front flap in exceptional condition overall with just the slightest wear at the spine ends. An exceptionally preserved copy.
Juan Chicoy's part-time service of operating a shuttle bus along the highway near his town brings together a wide array of characters who might not otherwise mingle: "a successful businessman, his prissy sexually frigid wife, their athletic university-student daughter, a traveling salesman, an arousing stripper masquerading as a dental nurse, a cranky rancher...each person in this random cast of players faces an inner crisis of sorts during their short journey, and the resulting interconnected character studies make up the novel...The Wayward Bus is, as its author points out, a contemporary morality play" (Leaves and Pages). Fine in about Fine dust jacket.
Juan Chicoy's part-time service of operating a shuttle bus along the highway near his town brings together a wide array of characters who might not otherwise mingle: "a successful businessman, his prissy sexually frigid wife, their athletic university-student daughter, a traveling salesman, an arousing stripper masquerading as a dental nurse, a cranky rancher...each person in this random cast of players faces an inner crisis of sorts during their short journey, and the resulting interconnected character studies make up the novel...The Wayward Bus is, as its author points out, a contemporary morality play" (Leaves and Pages). Fine in about Fine dust 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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- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5290
- Title
- The Wayward Bus
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- about Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
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Pasadena, California
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We operate a retail shop in "Old Town" Pasadena open normal business hours Tuesday through Saturday.
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