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The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/Missing
- Seller
-
Roseburg, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Faded red/orange cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering to front and blindstamp of bus at lower rightcorner. Gilt lettering to spine. Some Soiling, fading, corners bumped. BOMC edition published in same year of publication as true first edition, 1947. Age toning overall to text, with some soiling to top of several pages.
Former owners name on FFE. Binding is tight. A very readable copy
Mylar protected
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
- Seller
- Bonnie Lane Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 03-25-2024-04
- Title
- The Wayward Bus
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Format/Binding
- Tight
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Missing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First BOMC
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 312
- Size
- 8 3/16" x 5 1/2"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, American Author, Nobels Prize winner
Terms of Sale
Bonnie Lane Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bonnie Lane Books
Biblio member since 2022
Roseburg, Oregon
About Bonnie Lane Books
online book business specializing in First Editions, Native American literature, Poetry, and American History,
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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