The Wayward Bus

by Steinbeck, John

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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by Steinbeck, John.

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NY, Viking, 1947, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Second issue binding with the blindstamp on front cover the same shade as the rest of the binding, although a lot of readers get lost in Steinbeck's symbolism at the end of the book, it has broad moments when his writing is as sharp as ever, jacket designed by… Read more about this item
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1947
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New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First Edition, First Issue 1st Printing. Red Cloth. Near Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket. First Printing. First Issue, With Design In Lighter Color On Front Cover, No Book Club Dot. Apparently Not The Usual Printing, As The Book Is 1 Mm Thinner, 2.3Cm, And The Gilt Lettering Is Overprinted Neatly With Evenly Applied… Read more about this item
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1947
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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… Read more about this item
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First edition, first impression (The Viking Press, 1947). Original cloth with lettering to spine and upper board in gilt. A near fine book with a few isolated instances of rubbing to edges and a little dustiness to top edge. Contents clean and free from marks, names and inscriptions. The original and unclipped dust jacket is very good with some rubbing… Read more about this item
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Viking, New York, 1947. First Edition hardcover in very good condition with dust cover. The dust cover is unclipped in a protective Mylar cover but has some wear and chipping around the edges and some light foxing but the graphics are full color in good condition. The book is red cloth with the title and author embossed in gold and… Read more about this item
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From the Collection of Mr and Mrs J Paul Getty - Their calling card inside and goes with the book. The Viking Press, New York, 1947 First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful dustjacket that is vibrant in color with 2 tears. This original First Issue dustjacket has the $2.75 printed price present on the front flap with light wear to the… Read more about this item
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New York: Viking Press, 1947. 312 pp. Approximately 5 1/2 x 8 1/4". Pictorial jacket is in very good condition, with some wear, slight chipping of the spine, tape repairs to the inside of the jacket, original price of $2.75 intact. Dark reddish-orange cloth over boards with crisp lettering on cover and spine, blindstamp on front cover a… Read more about this item
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1947
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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… Read more about this item
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1947
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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… Read more about this item
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1947
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New York: Viking Press, 1947. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Green cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and spine ends bumped, no wear. Covers very clean, spine sunned. Binding tight and text unmarked. PO's name on ffep. Fiction. RGR.
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1947
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Viking, New York, 1947. FIRST EDITION hardcover in good condition with no dust jacket. The book is red cloth and has some discoloration and minor marks but there is no wear. The title and author's name are on the front cover embossed in gold and the author, title and publisher are on the spine embossed in gold. The pages have… Read more about this item
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1947
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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… Read more about this item
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1947
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BOOK CLUB EDITION. Viking Press, 1947. HARDCOVER. Dust jacket, now in a clear plastic archival cover, is soiled and worn with several tears, including a one-inch tear at the bottom of the spine. Page ends are lightly soiled. Pages tanned. Name written inside front cover. Text is unmarked. Stitched binding is good.
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1947
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by John Steinbeck (Author)Publisher: The Viking Press (1947)Hardcover8.25 x 5.5 inches, 312 pages The Wayward Bus is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, originally published in 1947. The novel's epigraph is a passage from 15th-century English play Everyman, with its archaic English intact; the quotation refers to the transitory nature of humanity. Although considered one of Steinbeck's weaker novels at… Read more about this item
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The Wayward Bus

by Steinbeck, John

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1947
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New York: Viking, 1947. BCE. Hardback. VG/G. Some edgewear, owner name on title page. BOMC article laid in. DJ is soiled, chipped at corners, faded/scuffed on spine.
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NY, Bantam Books, 1950, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 752, cover art by Stahl, Goldstone & Payne A23h, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus.
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by John Steinbeck

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1ST PUBLISHED
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1947
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Please see the photos for best details. DJ was cut a little small so it did not protect the very edges. This is the true 1st Ed with all the 1st issue points as described on FEDPO.com The top stain has faded but look at angle and you can see it was green. Great price for a true 1st.
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1947
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New York: The Viking Press, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 312pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with chip at tail of spine and old mends on jacket verso. Tight, clean, attractive first edition. Superb jacket front panel graphics. Ownership signature, dated March 1947, of John H. Mulliken Jr. (1922-2004), a Dartmouth… Read more about this item
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The Wayward Bus

The Wayward Bus

by Steinbeck, John

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Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards waterstained at heel, top stain faded, jacket chipped, toned, and has closed tears.
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Second Printing
Published
1947
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Hardcover
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NY: Viking. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards waterstained at heel, top stain . faded, jacket chipped, toned, and has closed tears.. 1947. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0670752770 . Green cloth stamped in blind and in gilt with red topstain and deckled fore-edge. $2.75 price and Portable Steinbeck blurb on front jacket flap. Rear jacket flap has Red… Read more about this item
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The Wayward Bus (1947 FIRST EDITION)

The Wayward Bus (1947 FIRST EDITION)

by John Steinbeck

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First Edition
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1947-01-01
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Hardcover
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Viking Press, 1947-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Missing. Published by the viking press in February 1947, Copyright 1947 by John Steinbeck, Published in the same day by the Dominion of Canada by the Macmillian Company of Canada Limited" Same Date to copyright and title page. Cover is sunfaded on edges and spine. Light foxing on endpapers. Yellowing on… Read more about this item
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