Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition sixth printing of Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck with price-clipped jacket in a new archival wrap.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, illustrated covers with no creases, clean page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a concave spine, a tight binding with two spine cracks, strong spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light: these were John Steinbeck’s goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.
Small mass market paperback ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
