New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Publisher's white cloth. Ink ownership inscription, dated 1962, to verso of upper free endpaper. Orange topstain slightly faded. Dust jacket with the spine toned and a bit of chipping at crown.

Steinbeck’s popular account of his journey across the United States, taken with his dog, Charley. Steinbeck took the trip in 1960 (driving in a trailer he called “Rocinante,” named after Don Quixote's broken down horse) beginning in New York and travelling close to 10,000 miles across the nation, ending up back where he began. The book was an immediate success, reaching the top of the on the New York Times Bestseller List when it was released.

“He set out with some misgiving, not sure his health would stand up to the 10,000-mile journey he envisioned; as he traveled, the years sloughed off him, and the eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed” (Edward Weeks, contemporary review in the Atlantic Monthly). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Item #8072)