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The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good-
- Seller
-
Temperance, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
1947 copy. Copyright page reads, "Published by Viking Press in February 1947." Presumed first edition. Dust jacket is in acceptable condition. Has multiple tears but covers the whole book. Price listed on DJ $2.00. Cover is stained on the inside. The boards are in good condition. The gilt lettering is still good. In-blind stamped bus on cover of book. Boards stained on inside. Spine is undamaged. There is a fair amount of foxing to the outside of the top and side of the pages. Inside book pages are clean, not torn and the corners are not folded. Nonsmoking. 100% of proceeds from sale are donated to our local library.
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
- Harvey and Associates
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 514
- Title
- The Wayward Bus
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 312
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Literature & Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Harvey and Associates
Biblio member since 2022
Temperance, Michigan
About Harvey and Associates
Harvey & Associates has been pleasing customers since 2000. We take great pride in our careful examination of all books, generous descriptions and cleanings, down to sticker residue removal. If you're not happy, we're not happy.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
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