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Travels with Charley
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Bellevue, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
Very good in cream white buckram cloth with black and tobacco colored embossment and titles, pictorial road map endpapers, orange topstain. 'Published by the Viking Press, 1962' to copyright page, no printings listed. Lower corner to front board is bumped and slightly faded around edge, else contents clean, binding sharp. Dust jacket is heavily sunned and rubbed with a closed tear to front panel and chipping and loss around spine, yet is unclipped (4.95). Altogether a serviceable copy, handsomely preserved in mylar.
Synopsis
Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue by American author John Steinbeck. It documents the road trip he took with his French standard poodle Charley around the United States, in 1960. He wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country on a personal level, since he made his living writing about it.
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- Bookseller
- Heaven-Haven Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B-52
- Title
- Travels with Charley
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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About the Seller
Heaven-Haven Books
Biblio member since 2024
Bellevue, Kentucky
About Heaven-Haven Books
Est. 2020. Secondhand, rare & uncommon books, bought & sold. Our specialties include contemporary small press poetry, Southern & Appalachian literature, Kentuckiana, classical and modern philosophy, Catholicism and Christian theology.
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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