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The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Very Clean, Grosset and Dunlap printing, 1947, Very clean John Steinbeck classic made into movie starring Jayne Mansfield. Book is Fine, tan publisher's cloth with dark red title to front board with bus vignette, crisp red title to spine, very clean, binding tight and square, interior is Fine, uniform red topstain, NO previous owner name or bookplate. Book is 8.35 inches in height by 5.75 inches in width, 312 pages. Jacket is Very Good Plus, colorful front panel, light chipping to head of spine, random edge and corner wear, rear panel features "Check Your Reader Rating", rear panel has light toning and wear. Goldstone and Payne A-23. Nice copy, Clean and Most Presentable. Professionally shipped. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003329
- Title
- The Wayward Bus
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- John Steinbeck, Steinbeck, The Wayward Bus
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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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