Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947-1962 / The Wayward Bus, Burning Bright, Sweet Thursday, The Winter of Our Discontent, Travels with Charley in Search of America / by John Steinbeck

Library of America, 2007. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards. VG/VG.

Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962) was Steinbeck’s last published book. A record of his experiences and observations as he drove around America in a pickup truck, accompanied by his standard poodle Charley, it is filled with engaging, often humorous description and comes to a powerful climax in an encounter with racist demonstrators in New Orleans.