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The Wayward Bus
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Topeka, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1947. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Rust colored cloth covers show light to moderate rubbing to edges and mostly showing along shelf edge. Book shows a slight spine lean and the binding is slightly loose though hinges remain sound. Former owner's signature with a 1947 date appears on the ffep. Text is otherwise free from markings and is only lightly toned. Jacket shows moderate to heavy edge wear with chipping, creasing, and some loss at spine ends including a 1" tear along the bottom front hinge of the jacket.. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages .
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
- Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2798
- Title
- The Wayward Bus
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
Biblio member since 2014
Topeka, Kansas
About Oddfellow's Fine Books and Col
We sell antiquarian and gently used books specializing in all things Kansas. We also offer a large selection of books for children, vintage young adult & series books; Agriculture; Psychology; Militaria and Western Americana.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
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