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The Wayward Bus
by STEINBECK, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, with publisher's statement on copyright page: 'Published by the Viking Press in February 1947'. First appearing 8 years after his landmark 'The Grapes of Wrath', this novel is set in a rural area of California and depicts the characters and driver who often ride a private bus between two small towns. The author was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (in 1940), and the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1962). --- In full reddish-orange cloth covers w/blindstamped depiction of the bus careening down the road on the front cover and gilt-stamped titling to spine & cover. Volume lacks the dust jacket, and no apparent topstain. --- With some lightening to spine, dulling to gilt titling, spotting to cloth and with prior owner's inked signature to front paste-down, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound copy. [NOTE: The original dust jacket is missing. However, a facsimile of the original jacket may be included for an additional $26. Please contact bookseller if desired.] ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (8), 312 pages .
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
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83329
- Title
- The Wayward Bus
- Author
- STEINBECK, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, Nat Book Award Prize;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Spine
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- Paste-down
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- Jacket
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- Facsimile
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- Good+
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
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