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In its original first-issue jacket, with characteristic fade across the bottom of the front panel and along the spine, the orange softened toward cream; light chipping at the spine head and top edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour characters move through three settings — a circus, a farm, and a ship — replaying a single domestic story: a husband's longing for a child and his wife's secret to give him one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-142\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steinbeck, John","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459955839137,"sku":"TO-2026-142","price":245.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-142_01_7c819977-0ef4-4403-b6a2-e07f1976426e.jpg?v=1783389195"},{"product_id":"to-2026-143","title":"The Wayward Bus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEINBECK, John.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wayward Bus.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: The Viking Press, 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. [viii], 312 pp. Original red-brown cloth, the front board with the title in gilt and a blind-stamped illustration of the bus, spine lettered in gilt; publisher's top stain present. In the original unclipped first-issue dust jacket priced $2.75 on the front flap — the pictorial wraparound design by Robert Hallock, the driver's hands at the wheel on the front and the bus crossing the California hills past a roadside shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe across to the rear. Goldstone \u0026amp; Payne A23a; first printing of 100,000 copies (Firsts 17:1). Dedicated \"For GWYN\" — Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck, the author's second wife; the couple divorced the year after publication. In its original first-issue jacket, protected in an archival sleeve. Book sound, cloth tight, blind-stamped bus and gilt spine bright, internally clean with no previous-owner markings; jacket retains strong color across the front and central composition, the $2.75 price intact and unclipped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story turns on a single day's bus run from the crossroads of Rebel Corners, through floodwater and a washed-out bridge, toward San Juan de la Cruz. 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Original cloth, the front board with a stamped illustration in black, spine lettered in gilt on a black ground, top edge stained green as issued. In the original unclipped first-issue dust jacket priced $2.00 on the front flap — the pearl-scalloped teal panel on a rust-red ground, the rear panel with the sepia portrait of Steinbeck (credited \"Photo by Breitenbach\"), Steinbeck facing to his own left, the first-issue point. Goldstone \u0026amp; Payne A25a. In its original first-issue jacket, protected in an archival sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteinbeck's most-read shorter work, and the only one of his books illustrated by José Clemente Orozco — the great Mexican muralist, then in the last years of his life, whose black-ink figure drawings carry the parable's weight as much as the prose does. 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