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John Steinbeck, the Good Companion by Sheffield, Carlton A
- Bookseller: Wayward Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 012395
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: First Paperback Edition
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0887393500
- ISBN 13: 9780887393501
- Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co
- Place: Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
- Date published: 2002
- Pages: 182
- Size: 6 x 9 x 0.5 inches
- Weight: 0.85 pounds
Description
Berkeley, California, U.S.A.: Creative Arts Book Co, 2002. "Dook" Sheffield was John Steinbeck's roommate in college at Stanford.. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Book summary
This affectionate memoir of Nobel Prize-winning American writer John Steinbeck by his friend Carlton Sheffield covers the years of their friendship, from 1919 at Stanford University to their old age. Sheffield provided Steinbeck with a critic, a sounding board, and a drinking buddy.
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