{"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. Juan Chicoy, half-Mexican and half-Irish, drives the line in a bus he has named Sweetheart; his wife Alice keeps the diner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-143\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steinbeck, John","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459955871905,"sku":"TO-2026-143","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-143_01_9bd5be5f-c9d6-481a-a5bc-e53eb1eccda9.jpg?v=1783388729","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-143","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}