Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional Book Club edition hardcover copy of Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck with an un-clipped jacket in a new archival wrap. First Edition described, 1962 Viking. Stated Tenth Printing December 1962, with no Book of the Month Club (BOMC) statement inside. Early, perhaps first BOMC printing with the same size, design and number of pages as the true first edition.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright, cloth boards with strong title ink on a straight spine and the front dog illustration, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, lightly rubbed corners and the book club dimple on the rear board. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with the ring stain from a coffee cup and a drip on the front. Also, mild surface wear and heavy edge wear and the BOMC statement on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
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.
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
