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1947rif. 149445New York: Viking 1947. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Rubbing open tearing along panel edges. Viking hardcover
1947rif. 002077New York NY: Vikiing Press 1947. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition with the following points. 1947 on title page with "copyright 1947 by John Steinbeck Published by Viking Press in February 1947 Published on the same day in the Dominion of Canada by the Macmillian Company of Canada Limited printed in the U.S.A. by the Haddon Craftsmen." This copy is VG in a VG unclipped $2.75 Mylar protected DJ designed by Robert Hallock.Exterior is rust with gilt lettering to the front and spine along with the embossed "Bus scene" across the bottom. Covers are rich. Gilt is bright. Spine ends edges and tips are modestly worn. Inside has armorial BP of PO to inside front board. Otherwise unmarked crisp and with modest toning.DJ has "The Wayward Bus " and "$2.75" across the front flap top .Spine ends of DJ are modestly worn spine joints are modestly rubbed and there is a faint vertical surface scratch running the length of the front cover . . Vikiing Press Hardcover
1947rif. 145186New York: Viking 1947. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Owner name on front pastedown. Light rubbing along panel edges. Few open tears throughout. Viking hardcover
1947rif. 012585The Viking Press. No foxing. Bright internally. Shadow of review page formerly laid in on ffep and inside front cover. Clipped but $2.00 price present. Bright unfaded and unsunned DJ in archival cover minor edge wear. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1947. The Viking Press hardcover
1947rif. 89351Viking 1947. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. First edition. Light staining on the front and back endpapers. Dust jacket Mildly edgeworn. Viking hardcover
1947rif. 89352Viking 1947. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Small bookplte inside frotn cover. Dust jacket edgeworn with a few chips. Viking hardcover
1947rif. 137247New York: Viking 1947. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Sticker removal damage to spine heel. Some egde wear. Nick to mid spine. Viking hardcover
1947rif. BL-002360New York: Viking Press 1947. 312 pp. Approximately 5 1/2 x 8 1/4". Pictorial jacket is in very good condition with some wear slight chipping of the spine tape repairs to the inside of the jacket original price of $2.75 intact first edition first printing dust jacket. Grey cloth over boards with crisp lettering on cover and spine blindstamp on front cover the same shade as the rest of the binding top stained red in near-fine condition. Goldstone & Payne A23 third issue Originally thought to be one of Steinbeck's weaker novels it was actually financially successful. The interesting thing about it is that no one single character in the book dominates. Rather the viewpoint shifts from one character to another quite frequently with access to the character's thoughts through an internal monologue. Adapted to film in 1957 to some success at the box office it starred Jayne Mansfield Joan Collins Dan Dailey and Rick Jason Viking Press hardcover
1947rif. 011127The Viking Press. The Viking Press 1947. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. No foxing or marks. Dust jacket has chipping to edges and spine. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1947. The Viking Press hardcover
1947rif. 127062New York: Viking 1947. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Open tears chipping throughout. Viking hardcover
1947rif. 91320From the Collection of Mr and Mrs J Paul Getty - Their calling card inside and goes with the book. The Viking Press New York 1947 First Edition First Printing. A beautiful dustjacket that is vibrant in color with 2 tears. This original First Issue dustjacket has the $2.75 printed price present on the front flap with light wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with slight wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing marks or bookplates in the book. One stain on back cover see photo.Overall a wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in great condition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The Viking Press hardcover
1947rif. 012064New York and Boston: Grosset & Dunlap 1947. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clean unmarked copy soild binding sharp corners. Mildly worn dust jacket tiny chip at head of spine and one top corner dj now in a new protective mylar sleeve overall an attractive copy. Scarce edition of this Steinbeck classic. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1947rif. 70625New York: The Viking Press 1947. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good in a Good dust jacket. Several tears and chips to jacket. Boards are slightly bowed. Ink stamp to bottom page ends and front pastedown. Minor staining to Flaps ends pages and boards from sticker residue.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Viking Press hardcover
1947rif. 000005New York: The Viking Press 1947 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. "Published by the viking press in February 1947 Copyright 1947 by John Steinbeck Published in the same day by the Dominion of Canada by the Macmillian Company of Canada Limited" Same Date to copyright and title page. VG/none. Original orange cloth boards. Title to spine and upper board gilt. Blind stamped pictoral bus on front board. pp 312. Pages clean no marks tight. Slight water stain on lower half of spine wraps around front board on left of cover 2 1/2 inches by 2 inches. " Ernest looked at her a little skeptically. He knew the fantastic stories about waitresses who became dramatic stars overnight but Norma didn't have the bubs for it he thought nor the legs. Norma's legs were like sticks. But then he knew about two or three picture stars who were so plain without make-up that no one would recognize them off the screen. He'd read about them. And Norma even if she didn't look it - well they could pad her out and if her cousin was Clark Gable why that was an "in" you couldn't beat. That was the breaks.". The Viking Press hardcover
1947rif. 44171New York: Viking 1947. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Chipping and short tears.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Viking hardcover
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1947rif. 081110London England: William Heinemann 1947. Hardback. First Edition. Previous owners ex libris name sticker to inside cover. Slight marks to cloth. Red cloth with gilt lettering. 254 pp. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts Theology History Politics Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions and all types of Academic Literature. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback. William Heinemann Hardcover
1947rif. 009115Heinemann 1947. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in a near fine jacket . First Edition. First English Edition. Excellent copy. Heinemann Hardcover
1947rif. 34553New York: The Viking Press 1947. First Edition. 8vo publisher's original orange-red cloth lettered in gilt with a blindstamped bus on the upper cover. 312. A very nice copy with only minor evidence of age the jacket with just a touch of rubbing at the extremities. FIRST EDITION. Steinbeck's fiction combines realism and romance but not always harmoniously. This novel presents a microcosm of frustrations in contemporary America through the stresses on a group of people stranded on a bus in rural California. The Viking Press hardcover
1947rif. 29832New York: The Viking Press 1947. Cm. 20 pp. 8 312. Leg. edit. in tela con titoli in oro. Piccola nota ms. al frontespizio. Ben conservato. Edizione originale. The Viking Press hardcover
1947rif. 13675New York: Viking Press 1947. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket including a few small tears. Weak toning. Text is unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 602 pages. Viking Press hardcover
1947rif. 55836New York: Viking Press 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. 8 312pp. Original auburn cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine blind-stamped landscape on cover gray top edge; in original color-illustrated dustjacket yellow and gray lettering on spine. Epigraph of 15th Century play Everyman as frontispiece. Price $2.75 on front flap. Set in the Salinas Valley this novel describes the life various characters without developing a main or leading character eluding to the meaning of the epigraph the transitory nature of humanity. Though not considered to be one of his best novels it was financially successful and adapted for the screen starring Joan Collins Jayne Mansfield and others. Binding with very light wear along edges dustjacket with light wear as well and some age-toning along edges back cover lightly age-toned with minor staining. Betty Rose inked to half-title. Block lightly age-toned. Viking Press hardcover
rif. 2353586New York: The Viking Press 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 20x20x20. First edition bus motif printed in cream on front board not blind-stamped. Lacks jacket. Evidence of flaps of absent jacket having been pasted down to endpapers and later removed ink name and sticker on front endpaper a couple spots on top and fore edge edges a bit rubbed a few pages lightly soiled. Binding tight and square. 1947 Hard Cover. 312 pp. Red-orange cloth gilt titles cream printed bus motif on front board. The Wayward Bus is a novel by American author John Steinbeck originally published in 1947. The novel contains several references to the recent Second World War and America's attempts to adjust to life in the immediate postwar era. No single character dominates The Wayward Bus. The viewpoint shifts frequently from one character to another often taking the form of internal monologue so that we are experiencing a given character's thoughts. Much of the novel's length is simply devoted to establishing and delineating the various characters. This novel takes place firmly within "Steinbeck country": most of the narrative occurs at Rebel Corners a crossroads 42 miles south of San Ysidro California. Although considered one of Steinbeck's weaker novels at the time of its original publication The Wayward Bus was financially more successful than any of his previous works. The Viking Press hardcover
1947rif. 152676New York: The Viking Press 1947. First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning writer. Octavo original cloth top stain green. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some chips to the spine. Jacket design by Robert Hallock. In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads transporting the lost and the lonely the good and the greedy the stupid and the scheming the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and possibly toward the promise of the future. It was the basis for the 1957 film starring Jayne Mansfield Joan Collins Dan Dailey and Rick Jason. The Viking Press hardcover
1947rif. 152649New York: The Viking Press 1947. First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning writer a novel about a busload of lost souls on the back roads of California. Octavo original cloth. With a full page inscription by Steinbeck on the front free endpaper written in Spanish with a closing line in Latin the inscription reads in translation “The first title of this book was El Camión Vacilador. It is very difficult to translate this title. It means: we are puppets and we are hoping! I hope! John Steinbeck. Pray for us now and in the hour of our death. J.S.” This inscription is a remarkable piece of Steinbeck bibliographic history. The Wayward Bus was John Steinbeck's first novel following his Nobel Prize-era masterworks a sprawling allegorical narrative set aboard a broken-down bus carrying a cross-section of American travelers through the California backcountry that Steinbeck conceived as a modern American equivalent of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The inscription in this copy reveals that Steinbeck's original preferred title for the novel was El Camión Vacilador a Spanish phrase that he himself acknowledges is extremely difficult to translate precisely explaining in his own hand that it means something along the lines of "we are uncertain ones" or "we are waverers" — a concept captured in the wavering hesitating lurching motion of the bus itself as a metaphor for the moral and existential uncertainty of its passengers. The choice of a Spanish title reflects Steinbeck's deep and lifelong immersion in the culture and language of California's Mexican and Mexican-American communities a preoccupation that had informed Tortilla Flat 1935 and Cannery Row 1945 and that gave his California fiction much of its distinctive texture and voice. That Viking Press elected the more commercially accessible English title The Wayward Bus over Steinbeck's preferred Spanish original is a small but revealing episode in the history of American publishing and the author's wry inscription — closing with the Latin ora pro nobis nunc et in hora mortis "pray for us now and in the hour of our death" — suggests a characteristically mordant Steinbeck humor about the fate of titles at the hands of publishers From the library of Otis L. Guernsey Jr. 1918-2001 the distinguished American drama and film critic and for more than three decades editor of the Best Plays theatre yearbook. Guernsey spent nineteen years at the New York Herald Tribune rising from copy boy to become the paper’s film and drama critic and arts editor before taking over the Best Plays series in 1964 and editing some thirty-six annual volumes an unrivaled record of the American stage. As one of the foremost theatre critics of his generation he moved in the same New York literary and theatrical world in which Steinbeck whose novels and plays were mainstays of stage and screen loomed so large. The Wayward Bus itself would reach the screen in 1957. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Hallock. A unique example regarding the history of this book from the Steinbeck's point of view. In his first novel to follow the enormous success of The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads transporting the lost and the lonely the good and the greedy the stupid and the scheming the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and possibly toward the promise of the future. Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath in 1940 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection and best seller on its appearance The Wayward Bus was the basis for the 1957 film starring Jayne Mansfield Joan Collins Dan Dailey and Rick Jason. The Viking Press hardcover
