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The Wayward Bus
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Andover, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 1947. First printing (states "Published by the Viking Press in February 1947" with no additional printings listed. Brick-red cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine, and blindstamped bus, a bit lighter than the board, on the front board. Light-to-moderate shelfwear. Spots of soiling and rubbing on the boards. Spine gilt a bit tarnished. Leaves lightly toned. Otherwise a fine, unmarked copy in a sound binding.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 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
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006031
- Title
- The Wayward Bus
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books Made Into Movies;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Andover, Massachusetts
About Banjo Booksellers
On-line and mail-order only. We have a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on modern first editions and collectible childrens books.
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- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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