The Wayward Bus
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Heinemann, 1947. Bound in the publishers red cloth hard boards with silver title lettering to spine. All pages are present and correct with no inscriptions. Tightly bound. Red cloth binding remains in very presentable condition. Silver title lettering to spine is sharp and definite. A tight and clean first UK edition copy of an often under rated Steinbeck novel. The story describes a mishmash group of people brought together in the Californian outback by fate and consequence and whose lives seem to be indelibly changed thereafter. These are adventures not normally encountered on your average National Express bus journey ! A most entertaining and absorbing John Steinbeck story.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION.
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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- Bookseller
- The Rare Book Shelf
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000963
- Title
- The Wayward Bus
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Herefordshire
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