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Sweet Thursday
by STEINBECK, John
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- first
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. First cloth issue. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's taupe cloth, stamped in red and blue, with red topstain; plain endpapers; x,273pp; list of Steinbeck titles facing title page. T.p. printed in red and black. Bookplate of James Glen Mead to front pastedown. Straight, bright, and clean, though pushed at head and tail: Near Fine. Jacket price-clipped, unfaded, but rubbed at edges, with tear at center of spine: Good or better.
A sequel to Cannery Row, basis for the 1955 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream. Preceded by an issue in wrappers. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A33b.
A sequel to Cannery Row, basis for the 1955 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream. Preceded by an issue in wrappers. GOLDSTONE & PAYNE A33b.
Synopsis
Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck. It is a sequel to Cannery Row and set in the years after the end of World War II. According to the author, "Sweet Thursday" is the day after Lousy Wednesday and the day before Waiting Friday.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57639
- Title
- Sweet Thursday
- Author
- STEINBECK, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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